[mythtv-users] XvMC wiki page

James Dastrup jc at dastrup.com
Thu Feb 16 18:24:56 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 11:40 -0500, 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.
> 

Once you upgrade to HD, you'll see...



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