[mythtv-users] Any chance of getting DVD to work on this setup?

[Scott Harris]

I've got mythtv working great from a pvr perspective, but now I'm trying
to get dvd functionality going without much luck.  I've got a fairly
slow CPU (details below) with a PVR-350.  Currently I'm forced to run
ogle, xine or mplayer out via x11 because no matter what I try xvinfo
can only report

xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
 no adaptors present

Video playback is choppy and can't keep up with audio, even if I use
-framdrop etc.  My X installation claims that I should be able to
support Xvideo.

grep XV /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation

And mplayer is compiled with xv support
mplayer -vo help
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino (Family: 6,
Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0


Available video output drivers:
        ivtvosd IVTV OSD
        xvmc    XVideo Motion Compensation
        xv      X11/Xv
        x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
        xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output
drivers


I've tried encoding them to various formats (mp3, mpeg, avi) and tried
direct playback from the HDD instead of the DVD.  All IDE devices have
DMA enabled.  I've also seen various posts on sites regarding direct
output to the pvr from mplayer, but wasn't quite ready to start patching
mplayer without some advise.

Today I tried switching from KDE to twm with no luck on performance.
The video is still choppy and gets to the point where the audio keeps
moving ahead faster or gets so far ahead it just dies.  I've done quite
a few of the suggestings on the video.html speed reference page, all
with no luck.

Can anyone offer some suggestions?  Sorry for such a verbose posting but
I wanted to make sure I got the most info in as possible.  I'm sure I've
left something off.




FC3
1G ram
Mythtv 0.17
Ivtv 0.3.2h




----------------------------------------------------
more /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm)
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 1161.873
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse pni sysca
ll mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 2293.76
--------------------------------------------------------


00:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8
KM266/KL266] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device
3908
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[size=512K]
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Xdpyinfo

name of display:    :1.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number:    60801000
X.Org version: 6.8.1
maximum request size:  16777212 bytes
motion buffer size:  256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    2
supported pixmap formats:
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 255
focus:  window 0x600012, revert to PointerRoot
number of extensions:    22
    BIG-REQUESTS
    DAMAGE
    DEC-XTRAP
    DOUBLE-BUFFER
    Extended-Visual-Information
    LBX
    MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
    MIT-SHM
    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
    RECORD
    SECURITY
    SHAPE
    SYNC
    TOG-CUP
    VNC-EXTENSION
    X-Resource
    XC-APPGROUP
    XC-MISC
    XFIXES
    XFree86-Bigfont
    XTEST
    XVideo
default screen number:    0
number of screens:    1

screen #0:
  dimensions:    1024x768 pixels (260x195 millimeters)
  resolution:    100x100 dots per inch
  depths (2):    1, 16
  root window id:    0x25
  depth of root window:    16 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  default colormap:    0x20
  default number of colormap cells:    64
  preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 65535
  options:    backing-store NO, save-unders NO
  largest cursor:    1024x768
  current input event mask:    0xd0001d
    KeyPressMask             ButtonPressMask          ButtonReleaseMask

    EnterWindowMask          SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask

    ColormapChangeMask       
  number of visuals:    2
  default visual id:  0x21
  visual:
    visual id:    0x21
    class:    TrueColor
    depth:    16 planes
    available colormap entries:    64 per subfield
    red, green, blue masks:    0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x22
    class:    DirectColor
    depth:    16 planes
    available colormap entries:    64 per subfield
    red, green, blue masks:    0x3f, 0x7c0, 0xf800
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits