[mythtv-users] nVidia 9600GT and XvMC - there or not?

[Tom Lichti]

Robin Smith wrote:
> Yes, sorry its an E6600 Core 2 Duo at 2.4GHz.
>
> Okay, I guess its good to hear it should be enough (and I would have
> thought it was too), but I simply cannot make it playback nicely.
>
> For SDTV on Slim its fine, on CPU++ or Hig Quality its good but
> occasionally choppy.
>
> Can anyone tell me where to go next, does my xorg look fine?
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but is the AGP necessary at all given the card
> is PCI Express? A lot of my tweaking and troubleshooting experience is
> based on the setup of my old P4 system with FX5600 AGP card...
>   
You need to stop removing all previous quotes, because most people will 
delete the messages in the thread, and it's hard to follow what you are 
asking about, exactly. AGP has no effect on PCI-E, so that's a dead end.

One question, are you using MythBuntu, or Ubuntu in general, for the 
frontend? I had no end of playback problems with Ubuntu, I switched to 
MythDora and it's been a dream. I run current SVN trunk version of 
MythTV, and the latest Nvidia drivers, and it just works. Here is the 
video section of xorg.conf. I made no changes after installing MythDora 
and the Nvidia driver:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection