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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/13/2015 7:59 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:<br>
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I spoke too quickly. Playback at 1920x1080 has some ticks and
hesitations that will drive me insane. I thought output looked
okay at 1680x whatever on my PC display so I tried lowering
resolution to the 1600x900 resolution supported by the TV:<br>
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# xrandr -q -d :0<br>
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1600 x 900, maximum 32767 x 32767<br>
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)<br>
HDMI1 connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 1209mm x 680mm<br>
1600x900 59.98*+<br>
1920x1080 60.00 + 50.00 59.94 30.00 25.00
24.00 29.97 23.98<br>
1920x1080i 60.00 50.00 59.94<br>
1680x1050 59.88<br>
1280x1024 75.02 60.02<br>
1440x900 59.90<br>
1366x768 59.79<br>
...<br>
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But no, there are still annoying delays and hesitations especially
visible in on-screen crawls and rolls. I also tried the
1920x1080i mode but that didn't help. I'd like to try the 50 hertz
refresh rate and to if that would help. Gotta figure out how to
set that in xorg.conf.<br>
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A month delayed here but I finally got my Kill-A-Watt attached to my
ECS Liva.<br>
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idle: 4-5 watts<br>
SD playback: 6 watts<br>
HD playback: 8-9 watts<br>
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The Samsung 50" it's attached to draws 90 watts when on.<br>
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As I noted above, I kicked the output down to 1600x900. Although I
complained about the output, after a month of using it we find it
acceptable. It's not Nvidia VDPAU beautiful. But at this power usage
and $100 for the hardware it's mighty good.<br>
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