<p>Hello fellow Myth users, </p>
<p>Been having lot of problems with playback, both with live tv and also with video. My hardware is as follows: </p>
<p>Motherboard: GA-73PVM-S2H with NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i Chipset <br>Memory: 2 Gb <br>Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core, E5200, 2.50GHz <br>TV-Cards: 2 x Nova-T <br>Graphic Card: NVidia GeForce 8500 GT </p>
<p>I orginally installed Mythbuntu 8.10 and MythtTV 0.21 using the onboard graphic card, but added the 8500 card when I started experimenting with VDPAU. I installed Avenard 0.21 + vdpau early on and since then I have been experiencing lot of playback problems. Been trying different versions of NVIDIA drivers, different XOrg config settings but with no luck. <br>
Moved to trunk about a month ago trying different NVIDIA drivers and different playback setup but again no luck :-( <br>Currently my system is unusable. I'm able to play some video but no HD material or live-tv. Doesn't matter whether I'm using the onboard graphic controller or the GeForce 8500 GT. I even tried replacing the GeForce 8500 with GeForce N9400GT. I did make some difference but I still got playback problems playing HD stuff. <br>
I have been Googling a lot following up on errors in mythfrontend log, trying out different settings and config and as I said with no luck :-( <br>I decided to installing from scratch and see what happened. Had a spare disk that I could use and installed MythBuntu 9.04 and everything worked great, live TV, playing HD material, no complains in the mythfrontend log (using -v playback). The playback profile was CPU+. The NVIDIA driver version installed was 180.44. I then upgraded to trunk and things started to get all wrong even live-tv didn't work well. Added TripleBuffer and disabled Composite and live-tv worked but playing HD still caused the same problems, tearing and complaining. <br>
I then installed the latest NVIDIA driver 190.36 and it didn't make any difference, same problem when playing HD material. Changing the playback profile to CPU+ playback didn't change anything, same problems. </p>
<p>So what should I do? What is going on here? I should be able play HD stuff on this hardware using the Internal player, right? Does VDPAU suck or is there something wrong with my setup? Should I file this as a bug?</p>
<div>Thanks, <br>Indridi </div>
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