I'm actually not opposed to putting together a proto system to putz around with stuff like this. The only issue with swapping video cards (like back to my 5700) is that it does not provide a Component out. I'd step back to SVIDEO which in and of itself degrades picture quality significantly. I probably forgot to mention that if I enable the SVIDEO portion of the 6600GT dongle and go into my TV this way, the picute qualty drops off and I see more motion artifacts. These I attribute to the TV.
But on to other issues. I pulled myth from CVS earlier today (ssh from a client site) and compiled it up. When I got back from the airport and spun up the new stuff with XvMC enabled, I didn't get a picture on the T portion of my dual head system. I stepped back to xv, same thing. Here is the message from the console 2005-02-18 19:57:25.477 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-02-18 19:57:25.477 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-02-18 19:57:25.485 Using XV port 145 Found 2 Xinerama Screens. Using screen 1, 800x600+0+0 X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8 Major opcode: 142 Minor opcode: 14 Resource id: 0x193 2005-02-18 19:57:25.505 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-02-18 19:57:26.540 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-02-18 19:57:26.542 Using realtime priority. 2005-02-18 19:57:26.657 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait It didn't lie, I got no Video. I went back to the tuesday CVS snapshot, did a make install and got my picture back, but the same error message pops up. Any ideas? I'll recompile the older snapshot with XvMC and see what happens as soon as I finish up some paperwork. -Blair Brad Templeton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:31:51PM -0700, Blair Preston wrote: > > Of course, I agree. I just fumbling around here trying to figure out why I > > seem to have more processor headroom remaining on my little 2.8Ghz Proc when > > running these test that seem to slam my hard drive. > > > > One thing that may explain some of the performance improvments are the > > apparent default charactaristics of my MSI Mobo. It seems that the BIOS has > > been set by default for what they call "Dynamic Overclocking", I just busted > > my CPU running at just over 3Ghz on my system monitor this morning. It > > peaked > > at that for just a few seconds, then settled back to normal. (This > > motherboard > > is all of 3 weeks in my chassis). It seems the default was "Captain" mode, > > which seems to do moderate "on demand" overclocking of the CPU, AGP and PCI > > Bus Speeds. Probably why my numbers look different from others. Probably > > not what I want set-up if I want this thing to live long! :) > > A more drastic but interesting step would also be to swap in different > video cards if you have them to see if it is your card doing such a good > job for you, or something else. Or run mythtv from rpms instead of > custom compiled to see if that makes the big difference. > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
