[mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with Nvidia FX5200 card/ XvMC hardware playback / TV Out Quality

[Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)]

I'm talking about the built in myth video player NOT mplayer :)

Mplayer works fine.

M.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "intent" <intent at m-net.arbornet.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with Nvidia FX5200 card/ 
XvMC hardware playback / TV Out Quality


>
>
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote:
>
>> When watching transcoded material (transcoded from mpeg2 -> mpeg4) - it
>> doesnt seem to make a difference whether XvMC is on or off (cpu sits 
>> around
>> 20%).
>>
>> This is strange - as far as I understood, mpeg4 encoding/decoding was 
>> more
>> cpu intensive than mpeg 2?
>>
>> Also there was no cpu difference between mpeg4 decoding with XvMC off or 
>> on.
>> Doesn't mythtv use XvMC for mpeg4 playback or is XvMC for mpeg 2 only?
>
>
> Your setup of mythvideo may be different but I've got mine setup to run
> mplayer using the xv video output (it was the default). Mythvideo just
> calls mplayer with the command line you configure in Utilities/Setup ->
> Setup -> Media Settings -> Videos settings -> Player Settings.
>
> You can compile mplayer with xvmc support (i.e. run configure with
> --enable-xvmc) and then make your mythvideo command something like:
>
> mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xvmc %s
>
>
> Mythvideo is working great for me so I'm going to leave mine using xv.. 
> unless
> anyone has a compelling reason to use xvmc?
>
>


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