[mythtv-users] XvMC output not working

[Mario Limonciello]

Angel Li wrote:

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> Mario Limonciello wrote:
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>> Angel Li wrote:
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>>> Mario Limonciello wrote:
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>>>>> Well XvMC was working for me just last evening.  I had to restart X
>>>>> this
>>>>> morning for some reason or another, and now it is again not working
>>>>> with
>>>>> that same BadAlloc error.  What can be causing these anomolies?
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>>> I can confirm this behavior. Yesterday I pulled up the OSD and I
>>> noticed it was in color, a dead giveaway XvMC is not working, so I
>>> poked around some but didn't find anything. I went back to watching
>>> the NBA game in HD and sometime later I pulled up the OSD again and
>>> this time it came up gray. My Myth frontend has enough horsepower to
>>> not miss using XvMC so who knows how often this happens. The really
>>> weird thing is that the front end log file had the Bad Alloc message
>>> yet XvMC was working.
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>> That was the same giveaway for me this morning too, the color OSD.
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>> I would think my machine should be able to handle HD without xvmc, but
>> it can't.
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>> Athon64 3200+
>> 1 Gig PC3200 Ram
>> Asus 68V SE Deluxe
>> Nvidia 6600 GT
>> Gentoo Linux 2005.0 (Compiled in 64 bit)
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>> I'm completely taxed and lagging away on hd without xvmc in myth.  It
>> plays fine with about 90 percent cpu usage in mplayer.  With xvmc I'm at
>> about 60-70 cpu usage (when its working).
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> That's weird cause my frontend is an Athlon64 3000, 512megs, the
> videocard is a cheap 6200 PCI Express card and using the soundcard on
> the motherboard I can get by without XvMC. I'm running Centos 4 but
> that doesn't really matter much and I'm running a build of 2.6.12-rc3.
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I'm running a variation of a 2.6.11 kernel, however I really doubt that
would be the cause.  I'm using an audigy 2, so I would doubt that would
be it either.  Hmm well I'm not sure what to think.