[mythtv-users] EXTREMELY choppy video

[Paul Leppert]

Thanks for the response!

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:32:42 -0800, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> Hitting the checkbox is all I have to do. I presume you're running with an
> nVidia graphics card, the XvMC support in the ATrpms packages will only work
> with nVidia cards.

I'm running with an nVidia Geforce4 TI 4200. I noticed that my
previous success with XvMC was on my other machine (a Geforce FX
6600), so maybe the 4200 doesn't support XvMC???

> 
> > I don't see anything in the standard log for mythfrontend.  If I turn
> > on additional logging, what, if anything should I be looking for?
> 
> Launch the frontend from a console:
> 
> $ mythfrontend -v playback
> 
> Should be something in the output there about XvMC...

I will try with that (-v playback).  However, I ran the frontend with
-v all and I didn't see anything on xvmc.

I am also trying to run with mplayer (mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc
recordedfile.nuv) and I get messages about using XVMC (no errors that
I can tell), but I don't get a picture (it says something about not
being able to get the correct resolution, repeats that message several
times at the bottom of the output).

I figure I'll mess about with mplayer and see if I can get it to work
there first before trying again with mythtv.  I only had limited time
last night, so I'll try again today and post my results from mplayer.

I also tried with xine (which is what I use for my video playback (per
your Tips and Hints)) and used the xine-check script.  Unfortunately,
I don't know how to tell xine to use xvmc (or if it even does) nor how
to tell if it is using it.  xine-check didn't find any problems
though.

Any other suggestions are appreciated...

Thanks,
phlepper

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