[mythtv-users] My Perennial Problems with XvMC
Gregory Keeney
gkeeney at panasas.com
Thu Sep 14 17:20:16 UTC 2006
Dylan Semler wrote:
> So one OS and one graphics card later, I'm back to where I was at the
> beginning. I've done all of the tweeks on the XvMC page on the
> wiki. I'm running svn as of earlier today (09/13/2006). Aside from a
> new processor (which will require a new motherboard, which will
> require new ram..) I feel that there must be something that can be
> done. However, I also realize now that the length of this post is
> likely to deter most people from reading it, but for those of you who
> still are, bravo! I'll post the outputs of mythfrontend and
> mythbackend in case anyone can help.
I had a similar problem with the GeForce FX 5200 Ultra using XvMC. (I am
running Debian Testing).
I tried many things and was constantly frustrated by the fact that Myth
would only play HD in a horribly choppy manner, yet Mplayer seemed to work.
Turned out that MPlayer was just better at dropping frames: neither were
using XvMC properly.
What made it work was having /etc/X11/XvMCConfig contain the line:
libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
Suddenly, everything worked. Not perfectly (There are some weird offsets
that I have not looked into), but it worked and was watchable. Which is
nice, as I only have a 1.1GHz Athlon.
Check your /etc/X11/XvMCConfig (or distribution equivalent).
Hope this helps.
--
Gregory Keeney
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