I just upgrade to 0.19 and what I've feared for just happened... My 1080i playback isn't working like it was in 0.18.<br>
<br>
I get a bunch of NVP: Prebuffering pause. My CPU is a P4 2.4Ghz
and I'm running 40% idle playback. Video is a bit jerky, but not
as bad as when bad stuff happened on 0.18. The buffering pause
seems to happen much faster, but way more often.<br>
<br>
[mythtv@stevexp ~]$ rpm -qa | grep 2.6.15<br>
alsa-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4-1.0.10-43.rhfc4.at<br>
kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4<br>
nvidia-graphics7667-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4-1.0_7667-68.rhfc4.at<br>
<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:07.574 Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://192.168.11.24:6543">192.168.11.24:6543</a> (try 1 of 5)<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:07.582 Using protocol version 26<br>
0: start_time: 2923.504 duration: 305.192<br>
1: start_time: 2923.460 duration: 305.202<br>
stream: start_time: 32482.886 duration: 3391.509 bitrate=13745 kb/s<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:10.323 AFD: Opened codec 0x8c3b7f0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:10.324 AFD: Opened codec 0x8cc4cc0, id(AC3) type(Audio)<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:11.680 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingPreRecorded<br>
0: start_time: 7421.167 duration: 291.081<br>
1: start_time: 7421.145 duration: 291.076<br>
stream: start_time: 82457.164 duration: 3234.483 bitrate=18866 kb/s<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:13.150 AFD: Opened codec 0x8cb7680, id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video)<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:13.151 AFD: Opened codec 0x8c82100, id(AC3) type(Audio)<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:13.160 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:13.160 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:13.451 NVP: Forcing decode extra audio option on.<br>
XvMC playback requires it.<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:14.616 The realtime priority setting is not enabled.<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:14.633 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded<br>
XvMC: picture structure FRAME<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:14.796 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:15.016 NVP: prebuffering pause<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:15.149 NVP: prebuffering pause<br>
2006-02-19 14:58:15.265 NVP: prebuffering pause<br>
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Steve<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jerry Rubinow</b> <<a href="mailto:jerrymr@gmail.com">jerrymr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 2/18/06, Steve Meyers <<a href="mailto:steve-lists-mythtv@spamwiz.com">steve-lists-mythtv@spamwiz.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I've got a Pentium 4 2.8GHz with an nVidia FX 5500 in my frontend<br>> machine. I'm having a little bit of trouble playing HDTV on it.
<br>><br>> If I don't enable XvMC, but use libmpeg2, I can play 720p without many<br>> problems, but 1080i stutters every 1-2 seconds. Even 720p stutters once<br>> every 10-15 seconds or so.<br><br>This sounds like a bandwidth or CPU problem. What's your CPU usage on
<br>the frontend when you're playing back? Are the FE/BE on separate<br>computers, and if so, how are they connected? Are your drives using<br>DMA? Is your video card PCI or AGP?<br><br>> If I turn off libmpeg2 and enable XvMC, it plays back with no
<br>> stuttering. However, within a 1-5 minutes, it goes berserk. The vast<br>> majority of the screen (90-95%) becomes a blocky purple or green. If I<br>> let that continue, it completely freezes X within 30 seconds. A
<br>> ctrl-alt-backspace will get me out of X, so the computer isn't<br>> completely frozen.<br><br>This I have no idea on.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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