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On 25/03/2013 7:02 AM, "Chris" <<a href="mailto:gcsa60@gmail.com">gcsa60@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 13-03-24 12:07 PM, HP-mini wrote:<br>
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>> On Sun, 2013-03-24 at 11:00 -0700, Chris wrote:<br>
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>>> Hello Everyone,<br>
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>>> I have very naive newby question.<br>
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>>> When I setup my MythTV frontend I was having some trouble with tearing. <br>
>>> I originally had the video playback profile set at Normal and I read <br>
>>> somewhere that what I really wanted was VDPAU so I started messing <br>
>>> around with the settings but couldn't get it to work at first. (For the <br>
>>> record the GPU is GeForce 8200/integrated/SSE2 and the CPU is AMD <br>
>>> Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e × 2). The MythTV Official Wiki had <br>
>>> a few suggestions one being to place the following in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:<br>
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>>> Section "Extensions"<br>
>>> Option "Composite" "Disable"<br>
>>> EndSection<br>
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>>> I think this was already in my xorg.conf because it's there now and I <br>
>>> don't remember putting it in (but that's another story).<br>
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>>> The problem is, I have recently downloaded the Netflix app onto my <br>
>>> computer and it wants compositing enabled. So I looked for solutions <br>
>>> and I found that I have a package on my computer called <br>
>>> plasma-widget-toggle-compositing which looks like it might do the <br>
>>> trick. My question is:<br>
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>>> If I enable this widget is it going to screw-up Mythtv somehow (Synaptic <br>
>>> Package Manager suggests it is linked to file associated with Mythtv)?<br>
>>><br>
>>> My guess is no; but, I have had so much trouble getting this thing to <br>
>>> work and wasted so much time fixing mistakes that I really want to avoid <br>
>>> them.<br>
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>>> Other possibly relevant information is that I'm using Mythtv 0.26 run on <br>
>>> Ubuntu 12.04.<br>
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>>> Thank you once again for your help and guidance.<br>
>>> Chris<br>
>>><br>
>> Lots of people have problems with tearing so I don't think the solutions<br>
>> are so obvious..<br>
>> I assume you are using unity desktop (compiz plugin).<br>
>> I have never had to disable composite (disables effects managers) on old<br>
>> lucid gnome 2 or 12.04 with unity/fallback/consort/kde/etc..<br>
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>> To get the best performance (mythtv & vdpau) you need vdapau to use<br>
>> video overlay (guarantees no tearing) & that requires<br>
>> composite/re-direction to be blocked.<br>
>> You can use "ccsm" to tweak a couple of compiz/unity settings:<br>
>> - enable un-redirect full screen<br>
>> - enable legacy full screen support<br>
>> Be very cautious with this tweak tool, unity seems not completely<br>
>> compatible with compiz setting tool.<br>
>> Of course this only works with mythtv in full screen mode.<br>
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>> Another possible problem is the incorrect refresh rate reported by<br>
>> nVidia driver (when using twinview metamodes).<br>
>> If using twinview you may need to manually set the composite refresh<br>
>> rate (no auto detect).<br>
>> AFAIK Later nVidia drivers have solved the incorrect refresh reporting.<br>
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>> I don't know about the plasma-widget-toggle...<br>
>><br>
>> Brett<br>
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> Thanks Brett,<br>
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> When I first read your e-mail I thought you had misunderstood the issue but on reading it again I get the impression that your telling me that I can take take the "Option "Composite" "Disable"" command out of my /etc/x11/Xorg.conf. Is that correct?<br>
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> If you are suggesting I take it out, do I just change it to the below or just delete all three lines from the file?<br>
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> Section "Extensions"<br>
> Option "Composite" "Enable"<br>
> EndSection<br>
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> Currently I have Mythtv running under VDPAU slim (still stutters horribly under VDPAU normal or high quality) and I am very happy with the picture quality . I was trying everything under the Myth Official Wiki but the last thing I did was add the line below to my /etc/X11/Xorg.conf and it seemed to do the trick.<br>
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> Option "TripleBuffer" "True"<br>
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> I actually considered taking the Composite Disable command out of my Xorg.conf file but because I didn't remember adding it in the first place (and I might have because I have been tweaking like a madman since boxing day (the day I entered the world of linux and mythtv)), I was worried that it was necessary for the operating system (of course I don't really understand what compositing is).<br>
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> Thanks again<br>
> Chris<br>
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There is a setting, tick box, somewhere in the frontend to separate mythtv screen from the desktop. Do you have it ticked?</p>