Dan Seddon wrote: > Hi > This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and > running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% > perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm > using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage > whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues > which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I > haven't found all the answers. > > First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth > putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know > if this is preventable). > Search the archives or http://svn.mythtv.org for ChromaKey OSD. I'm not sure if this was put in before 0.18 or not, but in SVN you can enable a setting in the database to use a 16 color OSD for XvMC use and on mine it works great. > Lastly the problem which I count as my final 5% - I have an issue with > some programs where the video stutters (the video may stutter in time > too, but it's hard to tell when your ears are hurting). It's been a > complete bafflement to me as it happens on only some programs (not > channels) and non of the configurations I've tried get rid of it (other > than diabling XvMC) - playing the same .nuvs with mplayer reveals that > the only unique characteristic of these recording seems to be that the > audio is at 256 kbits, whereas most of the other recording I have are at > 192... I haven't been very scientific in checking it - but it seems to > be consistant, having checked a few recordings. It happens to about 1 in > 5 recordings, or maybe less, at the moments - but is fustrating as I > have to go in to my options and reconfigure everytime I want to watch > such a recording. I've only seen this issue posted once by a guy who > said he was using the via equivalent of XvMC (I haven't found his post > again - as it was a while ago) - which might be important as is implies > it isn't a driver problem (I get the same issue when running the > frontend on my laptop with a completely different sound card and older > Quadro card). Is anyone else familier with this problem? I'm in the UK - > where we don't have HDTV yet, so I can't be that my systems overwhelmed > by what I'm throwing at it? > Are you using OpenGL Vsync? Seems any Nvidia driver above 7676 (which I'm use with great success) has problems with OpenGL Vsync enabled.
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