[mythtv-users] Video studder XvMC w/OSD

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/31/2008 05:20 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>> That may be. I also am driving my screen at 1024x768 using a VGA to NTSC 
>> converter playing HD scaled down to that resolution.  I feel I'm at the 
>> very edge of what I can do on this processor as not using XvMC 
>> studders.  I have a feeling that if I ever go to an HDTV, I'm going to 
>> factor in an upgrade to a CPU that can simply just chew through HD.
> You may use less CPU on an HD display if you don't need to scale the 
> content you're playing back.

Though, if using an Xv renderer (including XvMC), scaling is basically
free (as it's done on the video card).  And, since the OpenGL renderer
isn't really supported in 0.21, ...

Mike