On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 08:41 -0800, John Freer wrote: > JF REPLY IN CAPS Normally caps are used for SHOUTING.
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 11:56 -0800, John Freer wrote: > ON A SIDE NOTE, HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE XMVC STUTTER WITH OSD? THE > BEST SOLUTION I'VE FOUND SO FAR IS TO ENTER THE DATABASE AND MAKE THE > OSD FIELD NULL. THAT WAY, NO OSD IS USED AND THERE'S NOTHING TO > STUTTER. I ACHIEVE SIMILAR PERFORMANCE BENEFITS USING XVMC, BUT > GENERALLY DON'T USE IT BECAUSE OF STABILITY, ESPECIALLY WITH THE > CORRUPTED STREAMS I'M GETTING BECAUSE OF THE FBUS ERRORS. I don't have that problem. I'm running with a fairly recent SVN version of Myth, and I think that problem has been fixed. > > > I'm running FC3 with 2.6.12 / 18.1 mythtv. All dist-upgraded to the > > latest at-testing. > > I'm running 2.6.14.2 with DVB drivers from CVS. All with the latest > Gentoo stuff. > > ANY REASON TO BELIEVE I'D GET BETTER RESULTS WITH 2.6.14 THAN 2.6.12? Not that I know of. I needed a newer kernel to run the CVS DVB drivers to support the HD-5000. > Ideally, the cards would have a large enough buffer on them to allow > for > bus contention, and the driver would make full use of it. I believe > that the video4linux driver for the HD-2000 didn't have glitches even > without the hdparm settings on the PATA drive, so it may be something > that improved drivers can solve. > > MAYBE, BUT I AM STARTING TO GET THE FEELING THAT THIS MIGHT BE AN > ASUS / CHIPSET SPECIFIC ISSUE. I BELIEVE THAT SOME OTHERS ARE > RUNNING SIMILAR CONFIGS WITHOUT THE STABILITY PROBLEMS. AT THIS > POINT I WOULD GLADLY TRY A DIFFERENT MOBO IF SOMEONE COULD SUGGEST > ONE. I expect that a different chipset would correct the issues I'm having with my SATA drive. If I replace my motherboard, I'll also get a different CPU, and a faster CPU might help hide the problem. (I would love to see a site that lists lots of CPUs by performance and heat, so I can see what would be an improvement over my 2500+ without running hotter.) --PC
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