[mythtv-users] VIA EPIA XvMC problems upgrading from 0.18 to 0.19

[Jules Gosnell]

Steve Daniels wrote:

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>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users- 
>>bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jules Gosnell
>>Sent: 05 March 2006 14:11
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA XvMC problems upgrading from 0.18 
>>to
>>0.19
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>>Hi Chris,
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>>You're getting further than I am!
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>>I had XvMC working nicely on my VIA frontend with 0.18, upgraded to 
>>0.19 and now don't even have an option to enable this in my frontend
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>setup.
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>>OSD has reverted to blue (I'm using the blue theme) when it was always 
>>grey when XvMC was being used and CPU usage is way up - since I only 
>>have a 1ghz Ezra, this is a problem as it cannot always keep up - 
>>particularly with LiveTV.
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>>I rebuilt myth-0.19 on the frontend ensuring that all relevant xvmc 
>>switches were enabled, checked my XvMCConfig and linked it to my 
>>~mythv and ~/.mythtv/<some-subdir> directories - I found some posting 
>>that recommended this.
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>>Still no joy - frontend setup does not mention anything about XvMC :-(
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>>If anyone has any ideas, or has XvMC working with 0.19, I would be 
>>very interested in hearing from them.
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>>Thanks for you time, guys - and thanks for 0.19 - from what I have 
>>seen of it so far, it looks like a good move forward.
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>>Jules
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>It seems I'm in the same boat. I'll definitely be staying tuned to this
>thread.
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The good news is that the option to enable VIA XvMC is still there, it 
has just moved - try :

Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback -> 'Preferred MPEG2 
Decoder' -> VIA XvMC

The bad news is that, at least for me, enabling it now results in 
corrupted video when viewing both livetv and recordings that play fine 
without it. The screen tends to divide itself into several rectangles 
horizontally and these are filled with green and pink garbage. Amount of 
corruption varies on each play ...

I remember seeing something like this early on with XvMC travels but it 
all got fixed and I had been using exactly the same setup with 0.18 
(i.e. the only variable is the MythTV version) for many months with no 
issues....

I am interested to learn if other are seeing the same problems.

My setup is FC3:

xorg-x11-6.8.99-902.0.FC3.ucr.2
kernel-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3
kernel-module-via-drm-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3-2.7.2-1.ucr
mythtv-0.19-123.rhfc3.at
...

I think ! - I am copying the text off the screen of my tv and it's hard 
to read...

I'll try upgrading some of the other bits and bobs this evening to see 
if that makes any difference....

regards,


Jules

P.S.

h/w is a 1ghz VIA Ezra


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