<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I've got That mainboard and I have XV working. Like you, I experienced plenty of issues with Xvideo overlay, even tried going for openGL for a while but performance was no better. So far I've got my best results with the 8.5 version of the catalyst drivers on Gutsy. Not a big fan of envy as it just installs the same version of the ATI driver, not the latest. Then again, as I'm using Gutsy, I have to run the legacy version on Envy and not NG so I'm not sure what the differences are there.<br><br>Like someone else has already stated, you need to ensure you have the options;<br><br> Option "VideoOverlay" "on"<br> Option "OpenGLOverlay"
"off"<br><br>in your Xorg.conf. Also, rather than check your myth logs to see if you have Xvideo working, just type xvinfo into a terminal. If it says no adaptors, you still don't have it working. If it responds with a heap of guff, then things are looking up for you.<br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Raphael <rpooser@gmail.com><br>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>Sent: Saturday, 5 July, 2008 3:43:08 AM<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATI (I know, I know) Issues<br><br>Chris Keegan wrote:<br>> Hive Mind,<br>> <br>> I've been a happy MythTv user for quite a while now and recently I<br>> decided that I would upgrade my setup to be a whizzo slimline quiet box<br>> using a Hiper case. It's been a *massive* (I can't emphasise that<br>> enough) pain to get it working (and I've built a fair few machines in
my<br>> time). Because it's slimline I've only got 1 PCI slot, which is being<br>> occupied by the Tuner card so I'm reliant on the onboard graphics of the<br>> Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard (which is ATI X1250-based).<br>> <br>> So It's all up and running with Ubuntu Hardy and I'm very happy with it<br>> (here's the but) but video playback in MythTV is well, rubbish. ATI, I<br>> know was not the right decision but back then I was young and optimistic<br>> (naive). <br>> <br>> My mythtv-frontend.log looks like this at the relevant bit:<br>> 2008-07-04 14:47:17.764 VideoOutputXv Error: Could not find suitable<br>> XVideo surface.<br>> 2008-07-04 14:47:17.764 VideoOutputXv: Falling back to X11 video output<br>> over a network socket.<br>> *** May be very slow ***<br>> 2008-07-04 14:47:17.765
VideoOutputXv Error: XCreateImage failed:<br>> XJ_disp(0x83a6c90) visual(0x83db5c0)<br>> XJ_depth(24) WxH(1280x720) bpl(3840)<br>> 2008-07-04 14:47:17.765 VideoOutputXv Error: Failed to create X buffers.<br>> 2008-07-04 14:47:18.041 Couldn't load deinterlace filter<br>> <br>> With logs like that, you'd kind of expect crap performance. Video<br>> rendering rarely goes well across network interfaces. I've tried getting<br>> the latest ATI drivers using EnvyNG but to no avail.<br>> <br>> Is there any kind soul out there who may have a solution that is not<br>> "take everything apart, send back the motherboard, rebuild and hope that<br>> the next onboard graphics works better".<br>> <br>> I'd probably consider re-writing the ATI driver to be preferable to<br>> that!<br>> <br>> Thanks to any and all for any advice!<br>>
<br>> Chris...<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>> <br><br>Sorry to double post (last one had no useful info in it).<br>Are you using the RadeonHD drivers? Supposedly the x1250 is supported <br>there, but that driver doesn't have XV support yet. Maybe just using <br>radeon will help. For older ATI cards I had XV working using just radeon <br>and didn't need fglrx.<br>raphy<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a
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