<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Dastrup</b> <<a href="mailto:jc@dastrup.com">jc@dastrup.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 Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:17 -0500, Preston Crow wrote:<br>> > > I don't have problems with XvMC.<br>> > ><br>> > > Actually, I did have a bunch of stuttering and "prebuffer pause"<br>> > > messages in the log. My frontend was suid-root to use real-time
<br>> > > scheduling. I removed the suid, and the problem went away.<br>> > ><br>> > > Perhaps there's a compatibility issue with realtime scheduling and XvMC?<br>> > ><br>> ><br>
> > Are you saying that you are using XvMC for HD playback and you have NO<br>> > issues? By no issues, I mean truly no issues: Full color OSD, no<br>> > prebuffering pauses, smooth OSD with no flickering, no stuttering at all
<br>> > anytime while watching live TV or recorded TV. Many people have minor<br>> > issues but are willing to live with them.<br>> ><br>> > If this is true for you, I'm sure many would appreciate you sharing your
<br>> > relevant hardware (CPU, Video, etc) software versions (nvidia driver,<br>> > mythTV, kernel, etc) and xorg.conf.<br>><br>> My OSD is greyscale (doesn't bother me), but I have no stuttering or<br>
> flickering. I'm running SVN from sometime in January. I don't use live<br>> TV.<br>><br>> Hardware: XP 2500+, nVida 5200FX, PATA drive (SATA causes problems due<br>> to chipset issues).<br>><br><br>
...as I was saying, I have yet to find someone using XvMC without any<br>problems.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>So are you saying the color osd is causing the playback problems? I enabled the color osd hack mentioned on the xvmc wiki. or are you saying the grayscale osd itself is a problem.
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