[mythtv] XvMC merge patch slow

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cat.nyu.edu
Thu Apr 28 13:36:32 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 08:26 -0500, Allen Rohner wrote:
> I just recently got an HDTV, and set it up with myth. I have an Athlon
> 2500, 512 Ram, Nvidia 5700 using 7174 on Gentoo. Xv playback works, but my machine
> is too slow, and it drops frames. Using 0.18, XvMC plays back smoothly,
> 
> except for a horizontal blue line a couple of pixels tall at the top of
> the screen.
> 
> With CVS from today, the XvMC patch seems to be running as slow as Xv.
> I've checked that the libmpeg2 checkbox is disabled, and that XvMC is
> 
> enabled. Attached is some of my -v playback log.

>From the log it looks like you are using XvMC surfaces,
but full software decoding.

Can you try this with an up to date CVS though?

We have changed how XVideo startup works since
you compiled this.

-- Daniel



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