[mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?

[Dan Seddon]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:

>Dan Seddon wrote:
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>>Hi
>>This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and 
>>running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% 
>>perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm 
>>using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage 
>>whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues 
>>which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I 
>>haven't found all the answers.
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>>First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth 
>>putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know 
>>if this is preventable).
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>Search the archives or http://svn.mythtv.org for ChromaKey OSD.  I'm not 
>sure if this was put in before 0.18 or not, but in SVN you can enable a 
>setting in the database to use a 16 color OSD for XvMC use and on mine 
>it works great.
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>Are you using OpenGL Vsync?  Seems any Nvidia driver above 7676 (which 
>I'm use with great success) has problems with OpenGL Vsync enabled.
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Yes - doing a search after Mike's mail came up with that, I'm going to 
roll back when I get home. I had tried OpenGL Vsync - but I'm definietly 
using a newer driver than 7676, so that sounds like good advice. I now 
know what I should be looking for in the logs from an earlier mail too, 
so I'm feeling a lot more optimistic about sorting this out! The 
ChromaKey stuff sounds like the way to go as I was just reading 
something about that in Nvidia help! Maybe I'll have XvMC going without 
any downsides : ) I have 0.18 from ATrpms - but I'll do a search on 
ChromaKey OSD.

Thanks for the help!

Dan