[mythtv] Video as time base stopped working on EPIA with recent
CVS
steve at nexusuk.org
steve at nexusuk.org
Sun Apr 11 10:38:22 EDT 2004
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Henk Poley wrote:
> 1) Sure it really worked before? The dev of this thing told me it only works
> with nVidia cards. Possinly you ran it on it's primary fallback method.
Oops, yes I forgot to point this out in my previous mail - the option uses
the /dev/nvidia device. If you don't have that device then it will fall
back to /dev/rtc and as a last resort, usleep(). But generally if you
don't have /dev/nvidia it's not worth using it instead of the normal
experimental AV sync option.
> 2) You still run the frontend as root? As since the thing can only acces the
> vsync info as root, and can only relyably fall-back to precise timeing
> information by the kernel as root. As a normal user it will fall back to
> using usleep(), which would be (and is) crap.
AFAIK running the frontend as root is recommended anyway isn't it? Since
the frontend likes to increase it's process priority on some threads
(which only root can do).
- --
- Steve http://www.nexusuk.org/
Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence
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