[mythtv-users] Playback of a particular HD recording using VDPAU crashes mythfrontend and X

[James Oltman]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Jelte Veldstra <jelte.veldstra at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I hate to hijack the thread, but I'm having hard lock ups as well.  Running
>> an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (it's an off the shelf system, so I don't
>> really know much more about it.  When I get home I can check on more
>> specifics).  When you say disable CPU throttling, do you mean disable
>> SpeedStep in the BIOS?  Or is there more to it?  Thanks!
>>
>> Jim
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> My system is a AMD based one, so no Intel Speedstep there. For me I could
> leave CnQ enabled in the BIOS, but didn't run powernowd. I would assume that
> disabling Speedstep in the BIOS would disable frequency scaling altogether.
> Worth trying at least.
>

I was in the middle of watching Lost and it locked up on me.  I rebooted and
tried to get back to my same spot, and it locked again.  On the second hard
boot I looked in my BIOS and SpeedStep wasn't enabled, but something called
C State was.  It had something to do with speed controls.  So I disabled
it.  I didn't have lockups after that, but that's not saying it's fixed.
Only time will tell.  It sucks cuz I can't ping the FE when it locks, and
can't use the keyboard either.  I could try really verbose logging I guess.

Jim
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