Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2 Encoded Program Playback Performance w/VIA Unichrome xvmc

2005-09-07 Thread Stephen Dolan
> Apologies for going a bit OT, but has anyone out there got this colour
> OSD patch working? I've tried to patch Myth 0.18.1, but the patch on
> the site fails - I guess its for an earlier version of Myth. Anyone
> know if a newer patch is available ?
> 
To answer my own post... the patch is for svn revision 6809 of mythtv.
It won't apply cleanly to the latest SVN version either :-(
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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2 Encoded Program Playback Performance w/VIA Unichrome xvmc

2005-09-07 Thread Stephen Dolan
>  Another indicator that MythTV is using VIA xvmc hardware MPEG2 decoding
>  is that when that option is enabled in the MythTV setup, the OSD
>  displays in greyscale (as described and patched for
>  at http://www.ivor.it/mythtv/).
> 

Apologies for going a bit OT, but has anyone out there got this colour
OSD patch working? I've tried to patch Myth 0.18.1, but the patch on
the site fails - I guess its for an earlier version of Myth. Anyone
know if a newer patch is available ?
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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2 Encoded Program Playback Performance w/VIA Unichrome xvmc

2005-09-06 Thread Jules Gosnell

I have a 1ghz Ezra running :

FC4
kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4
kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4
kernel-module-via-drm-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4-2.6.7-1.ucr
gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4
xorg-x11-6.8.99.900-0.FC4.ucr.2 (rebuilt with gcc32)
xine-lib-1.1.0-0.lvn.3.4.ucr.1
xine-0.99.4-0.lvn.1.4
mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at

I have glxinfo reporting direct rendering enabled.

I have xine playing dvds at about 15-20% cpu (that means I run up Gnome 
with bubblemon, start up xine and read the value off bubblemon - so 
actually xine's usage is a bit lower - maybe 5% or so...), as compared 
to 60-80% without h/w acceleration.


I have MythTV set up to use XvMC, but I just get a 'unable to initialize 
video' error... - log enclosed...


I would be grateful for any help. I have tried rebuilding the myth SRPM 
but it breaks on gcc32 because it doesn't like the '-mtune=pentium4' 
that FC4 rpmbuild seems to throw at it and it breaks on gcc4 because 
some warning has become an error :-(...


I'd be happy to help anyone on FC4 get to where I am.

Anyone any ideas ?

cheers,


Jules



R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:


On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:10:37 -0500, Doug Lim wrote:

 


The fact that xvmc support is working properly in general is confirmed
by the fact that both DVD and MPEG2-encoded recorded program playback through
xine (with -vo xxmc) are putting about 5% load on the CPU.
   



What are you using to determine the CPU load?
I've seen various references to figures but no reference to the
program/applet which  is being used.

And googling has not produced anything which will compile and install on
my Via SP13000 with Mandriva 10.2 and KDE
Geoff

R. Geoffrey Newbury  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 
Mississauga,Ontario, Canada  Facsimile:   905-271-1638


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Script started on Tue 06 Sep 2005 10:33:37 AM BST
]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mythfrontend 
2005-09-06 10:33:45.060 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=720, height=576, numscreens=1
2005-09-06 10:33:45.163 Using screen 0, 720x576 at 0,0
2005-09-06 10:33:45.198 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-09-06 10:33:45.202 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-09-06 10:33:48.924 Switching to square mode (blue)
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2005-09-06 10:33:49.967 Joystick disabled.
2005-09-06 10:33:50.138 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-09-06 10:33:50.350 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler
2005-09-06 10:33:50.352 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler
2005-09-06 10:33:51.945 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.0.6:5060 NAT address 192.168.0.6
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set
2005-09-06 10:33:55.794 Starting media monitor.
2005-09-06 10:34:00.809 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-09-06 10:34:00.867 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.0.2:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2005-09-06 10:34:00.883 Using protocol version 15
2005-09-06 10:34:00.977 Using protocol version 15
2005-09-06 10:34:02.908 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-09-06 10:34:02.909 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
Using XvMC version: 1.1
XvMC found and using MC surface
2005-09-06 10:34:03.021 Using XV port 68
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 21, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 21
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci::01:00.0
Unable to create XvMC Blocks
2005-09-06 10:34:05.127 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-09-06 10:34:05.127 Decoder not alive, and trying to play..
2005-09-06 10:34:20.148 Changing from None to None
2005-09-06 10:34:20.339 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read().
]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit

Script done on Tue 06 Sep 2005 10:34:40 AM BST
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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2 Encoded Program Playback Performance w/VIA Unichrome xvmc

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Lim
On 9/6/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:10:37 -0500, Doug Lim wrote:
> 
> > The fact that xvmc support is working properly in general is confirmed
> > by the fact that both DVD and MPEG2-encoded recorded program playback 
> > through
> > xine (with -vo xxmc) are putting about 5% load on the CPU.
> 
> What are you using to determine the CPU load?
> I've seen various references to figures but no reference to the
> program/applet which  is being used.

I'm using top in a telnet session.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2 Encoded Program Playback Performance w/VIA Unichrome xvmc

2005-09-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:10:37 -0500, Doug Lim wrote:

> The fact that xvmc support is working properly in general is confirmed
> by the fact that both DVD and MPEG2-encoded recorded program playback through
> xine (with -vo xxmc) are putting about 5% load on the CPU.

What are you using to determine the CPU load?
I've seen various references to figures but no reference to the
program/applet which  is being used.

And googling has not produced anything which will compile and install on
my Via SP13000 with Mandriva 10.2 and KDE
Geoff

R. Geoffrey Newbury  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 

Mississauga,Ontario, Canada  Facsimile:   905-271-1638

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