<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 09:24 -0800, Dawning Sky wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I just upgraded to 0.19 through ATrpms and so far it's been running<br>> great. XvMC is much more stable. I can now watch Live TV or<br>
> recordings for hours without freezing. But I still get a lot of<br>> "prebuffer pause" and either "video xxx frames ahead of audio" or<br>> "audio xxx frames ahead of video" in the frontend log. Sometimes I
<br>> don't even notice any problem by simply watching the playback, but<br>> sometimes the problem can be very noticable. I'm wondering whether<br>> anyone else is having or had the similar problem and how to solve
<br>> it.<br>><br>> My machine is a P4 2.4GHz, 768MB RAM, FX5200 on AGP, running nVidia<br>> driver 7174 on FC3 2.6.12 kernel. When watching HD contents, the<br>> frontend is using about 50% CPU and X using about 3%.
<br>><br><br>Everyone has problems with XvMC. There are some suggestions in the wiki<br>to reduce the problems, but you won't be able to solve everything.<br>Because you only have a P4 2.4, you will need XvMC to watch HD content.
<br>Or, get a P4 2.8 and turn off XvMC.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>I was able to watch HD without XvMC in 0.18.1. Not perfect, but watchable. Of course, without deinterlace. <br>Deinterlace gives me trouble sometimes, like when in the "4:3 Zoom" mode.
<br><br>DS<br>