[mythtv] HDTV patches

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri May 21 23:46:14 EDT 2004


On Friday 21 May 2004 05:37 pm, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
> I've uploaded the latest set of patches:
>   http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/~danielk/mythtv/all-patches-v2.tbz
>
> Some of them are actually empty because they've been applied to CVS. I
> generate these automatically and will have to manually remove the empty
> ones. The interesting one is the xvmc-efficiency patch. Issac had
> trouble with the last one using a GeForce 4 without IDCT acceleration. I
> may have fixed that bug, but I can't test it myself. If someone has a
> GeForce 4 Ti and wants to help, just try playing an MPEG-2 video with
> this patch and  XvMC enabled and tell me how it looks. There are several
> different paths though the code depending on the hardware support
> available. I can only test a subset of these with my GeForceFX 5200
> card. I may try splitting up this patch further, if this patch doesn't
> fix the problem. I've also attached a detailed description of this
> patch to this e-mail...

Doesn't fix the problem here.  Still makes the video look like crap.  Very 
grainy, big blocks of uninitialized video.  I frames are clear, though.  On a 
positive note, though, it no longer crashes on one of my test clips, so, 
there's some improvement with this updated patch.

Isaac


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