[mythtv-users] Choppy fullscreen video playback on latest fixes branch

[R. Goff]

For posterity, this was fixed by checking out and compiling the latest 
i810 xorg driver from freedesktop. This required updating libdrm to 
version 2.2 as well. Either could have been the solution.

Raal

R. Goff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've upgraded to the .20-fixes branch using apt-get (Ubuntu Edgy), and 
> now all my video playback is choppy, especially when watching 
> recordings. Live tv is better, and stops for a few frames each second, 
> but recordings are extremely choppy, freezing constantly. Its not a 
> hardware speed issue, since playing 1080i and 720p h264 videos work fine 
> under xine (1.6ghz core duo). The backend is not under any considerable 
> load either, nor does it look like a network issue, since the HD 
> material is also hosted on the backend machine. I'm using 2 DVB cards as 
> the source.
>
> What is also interesting is that the preview window for the recordings 
> does not display this issue, only fullscreen playback.
>
> I have tried playing with the playback performance settings (Interlacing 
> on/off, libmpeg2 etc etc), but it seems to make no difference.
>
> Is this a known issue, is anyone else having the same problem? Does 
> anyone have any suggestions on fixing? I've trawled through the mailing 
> list archives and couldn't find any solutions.
>
> If no-one has a solution for this i'll open a ticket, but im hoping its 
> just a misconfiguration somewhere.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Raal
>
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