[mythtv] Anyone looking at the XvMC/OSD glitches?

[Stephen Hocking]

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Stephen Hocking wrote:
> ]When playing  HDTV live, One can get reliable playback and non-flickery OSDs 
> ]by disabling XvMC. However, this makes the CPU requirements insanely high. Has 
> ]anyone looked at what it would take to plunk the OSD display into the data 
> ]being sent off by the XvMC code, rather than it being dropped on top of it, 
> ]causing all sorts of weird interactions?
> 
> No one has looked into that. Are you volunteering? :)
> 

Heh! I'm still trying to get on top of what exactly Xv and XvMC does (the doco 
in the share/docs area in XFree86 is a little sparse, and googling seems to 
just turn up a bunch of people chattering about MythTV - go figure. Do you 
know of any online references that explain it all with examples?



	Stephen

PS Are ou the DTK who has those HDTV recording patches I'm currently running?
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