[mythtv-users] New Nvidia drivers announced

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Tue Dec 23 09:34:37 EST 2003


On Monday 22 December 2003 17:57, Christian Hack wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New Nvidia drivers announced
>
> > On Monday 22 December 2003 15:17, Jason Ramey wrote:
> > > Haven't tried that release yet but did try the 4620 and haven't
> > > experienced any problems as of yet. The addition of the
> > > nvidia-settings tool has made tweaking so much easier. FYI, those
> > > experiencing jitter on the menus with geforce4 cards, try
> > > tweaking your contrast, brightness, and gamma. It hasn't
> > > completely disappeared but was a great help. Much easier on the
> > > eyes.
> > >
> > > Jason
> >
> > My main concern is that (at last report), the 4363 drivers were the
> > only ones in which overscan & vbi refresh api were working (for my
> > GF4MX, at least).  I'm curious to see if they've restored both of
> > those for NV17 TV encoders.
>
> I haven't tried them myself but from the list of changes on the
> download page:
>
> "Reduced CPU usage when OpenGL applications are syncing to vblank."


Yeah, I saw that and was wondering if that means they fixed/restored the 
vblank api that Myth uses for the 'Experimental A/V Sync' option.

-JAC



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