[mythtv-users] Audio+video stutter after upgrade to Fedora 10+NVidia 180 on FX6200

[Niels Dybdahl]

I think I better forge these into separate threads...

Niels

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Niels Dybdahl <ndylist at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found the following in the wiki:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/NVidiaProprietaryDriver#Choppy_video.2FHigh_CPU_Usage
> It states that the NVidia driver 180 has a bug that makes it stutter with
> certain modelines.
> I have now tried a number of modelines, but apparently they have no visible
> effect. The display control panel in Gnome indicates that there are still
> 768 lines even if I try to reduce the number of lines. Is there any way to
> check whether the mode line is used and what the current resolution is?
>
> Second question: Does anyone have a working modeline for 1360x768 with a
> NVidia 180 driver? Could I then have a copy of the xorg.conf ?
>
> Third question: Does anyone have an easy way of going back to an older
> nvidia driver when running on a system based on Fedora 10 and RPMFusion?
>
> Best regards
> Niels Dybdahl
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Niels Dybdahl <ndylist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I forgot to mention that most other problems I have found regarding
>> stuttering is on playing HD with XvMC.
>> I am trying to play SD with Xv.
>> My CPU is a 1.8 GHz Athlon and before the update the CPU was at 30-40%,
>> now it is 80-100% when playing.
>>
>> Niels Dybdahl
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Niels Dybdahl <ndylist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have just upgraded from MythTV 0.20+Fedora 6+Nvidia ? to MythTV
>>> 0.21+Fedora 10+NVidia 180.51-1
>>>
>>> Everything works except that the video and audio stutter so that it is
>>> unwatchable.
>>> - No stutter if I use a different PC to play the recording
>>> - Stutter if I try to play a recording with mplayer -fs -vo xv . No error
>>> messages from mplayer or mythtv that I have noticed.
>>> - CPU goes close to 100% while playing with either mplayer or
>>> mythfrontend.
>>>
>>> My GPU is a NVidia 6200 which worked fine on my old installation.
>>> I have checked in the Xorg.0.log that it is the 180.51 driver that is
>>> loaded:
>>>
>>>   (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  180.51  Thu Apr 16 19:08:39 PDT 2009
>>>   (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
>>>
>>> My best guess is that the Xv does not work correctly for some reason. I
>>> have reused my xorg.conf from my old system. Should anything significant be
>>> changed from F6 to F10?
>>> Another guess is that the NVidia driver 180 does not work properly with a
>>> FX6200 even though I have read that it should.
>>> I have appended my xorg.conf
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea what is going on?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Niels Dybdahl
>>>
>>> xorg.conf:
>>>
>>> Section "ServerLayout"
>>>         Identifier     "single head configuration"
>>>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>>>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>>>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "Files"
>>>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>>>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>>>         FontPath     "unix/:7100"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "Module"
>>>         Load  "fbdevhw"
>>>         Load  "record"
>>>         Load  "freetype"
>>>         Load  "type1"
>>>         Load  "v4l"
>>>         Load  "glx"
>>>         Load  "dbe"
>>>         Load  "extmod"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "ServerFlags"
>>>         Option      "BlankTime" "0"
>>>         Option      "StandbyTime" "3"
>>>         Option      "SuspendTime" "4"
>>>         Option      "OffTime" "5"
>>>         Option      "AIGLX" "on"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>>>         Driver      "kbd"
>>>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>>>         Option      "XkbLayout" "dk"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>>         Driver      "mouse"
>>>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "Monitor"
>>>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>>>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>>>         ModelName    "Unknown monitor"
>>>         DisplaySize  349        196
>>>         HorizSync    19.0 - 62.0
>>>         VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
>>>         ModeLine     "1360x768" 85.5 1360 1424 1536 1792 768 771 777 795
>>> +hsync
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "Device"
>>>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>>>         Driver      "nvidia"
>>>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>>>         BoardName   "NVidea GForce FX6200"
>>>         Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "Screen"
>>>         Identifier "Screen0"
>>>         Device     "Videocard0"
>>>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>>>         DefaultDepth     24
>>>         SubSection "Display"
>>>                 Viewport   0 0
>>>                 Depth     16
>>>                 Modes    "800x600"
>>>         EndSubSection
>>>         SubSection "Display"
>>>                 Viewport   0 0
>>>                 Depth     24
>>>         EndSubSection
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> Section "Extensions"
>>>         Option      "Composite" "Enable"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>>
>>
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