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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:34 PM, John Finlay <<a href="mailto:finlay@moeraki.com">finlay@moeraki.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>> On 04/04/2008 06:43 PM, John Finlay wrote:<br>><br>>> The problem of not being able to use xvmc reoccured again as I was<br>>> trying out various profile settings in a new playback profile that I had<br>
>> created. Again removing all the playback profile groups - in effect<br>>> resetting them - again allowed xvmc to be used. Has anyone else had this<br>>> experience? Could this be a bug in the profile code?<br>
>><br>><br>> More likely the new profile groups you are creating (or the<br>> modifications to the one you're using--if you're not creating new ones<br>> as recommended by the wiki page to which you were referred) are not<br>
> properly configured. Perhaps you're not even using XvMC, but instead<br>> getting a fallback that your new profile groups disable.<br>><br></div>I created a new profile group for experimentation and it only has one<br>
ruleset which has rez > 0 0. I then modify the decoder setting and the<br>video render setting within the offered choices. I then try out the<br>change to see the affect on cpu usage, etc. I haven't figured out which<br>
specific setting(s) causes the xvmc to stop working but it is repeatable<br>that deleteing all the profiles clears the problem.<br><br>Given that the profile settings for video decoder and deinterlacing are<br>constrained by the choices of decoder and assuming that these<br>
constraints are compatible, what possible misconfigurations would be<br>likely? Incompatibility with the hardware capabilities?</blockquote>
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<div>Check your frontend logs (maybe with -v playback) and you'll see they aren't constrained and will try to fallback to various things if what you narrowly select isn't supported IIRC.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>