<DIV>I'm also noticing alot of prebuffering pauses. Though I am running 24bpp mode and haven't changed it before my last recompile of Myth. Could be a seperate issue.</DIV>
<DIV>Nothing seems to be particulary effected though.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart<BR><BR><B><I>Andrew Dodd <atd7@cornell.edu></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>Just an FYI for some of you:<BR><BR>2-3 days ago I tried recompiling Myth with XvMC support. Oddly, it actually<BR>made things SLOWER for me. I got frequent "prebuffering pause" messages, and<BR>the video would be choppy, especially if the OSD were up. So I recompiled again<BR>without XvMC. I noticed in various archives that a lot of people had<BR>encountered similar "prebuffering pause" problems when using XvMC and had<BR>ditched it.<BR><BR>I noticed today that at some point in the past few months, my default colordepth<BR>had been reset from 24bpp to 16bpp. (Most of the X config programs seem to<BR>prefer 16...)<BR><BR>Well, I changed my default depth back to good 'ole 24bpp, and tried recompiling<BR>MythTV again with XvMC support back in.<BR><BR>Guess what? It works BEAUTIFULLY now.<BR><BR>Might be a good FAQ entry - Make sure you're in 24bpp mode, otherwise XvMC won't<BR>work.
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