[mythtv-users] XvMC wiki page

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> James Dastrup wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 20:41 +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/16/06, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Mine is too. Run `hostname` and see what it gives you  
>>> then try
>>>         using that.
>>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> Well, I tried everything mentioned on the wiki.
>>> OSD is still in black & white. I've reverted to normal   
>>> decoding .. It
>>> doesn't use too much CPU on my machine anyway, my machine is 82%  
>>> IDLE
>>> when I watch a HDTV (1440x1080i) channel.
>>>
>>> JY
>>>
>>
>>
>> If you're only using 18% CPU when watching HD content without  
>> XvMC, why
>> in the world would you want to use it?  I would suggest you stay far
>> away from XvMC, and just enjoy your supercomputer.
>>
>
> Yeah, but why burn CPU if you don't have to? I don't have any HD
> content, so I can't vouch for
> XvMC with HD, but with 0.19 XvMC works EXCELLENT on my machine. Color
> OSD, no flicker,
> no stutter during playback/ff/rw. And I gain a few extra percent idle
> CPU. I really can't complain. It's
> perfect.

But you still can't do PiP, correct ???