[mythtv] Latest CVS XvMC - Nvidia Nforce2 IGP Live TV hangs

[Jeremy Garff]

I'd be happy to test out any changes since it happens every time for me. 
Sadly I don't know more about video compression or motion compensation, or
I'd try to help fix it myself.

I hope that this problem is an isolated issue, though I still don't
understand why nobody else is seeing it if its a general problem with the
Nvidia drivers.

Thanks,

Jeremy

> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Jeremy Garff wrote:
> ]Is there anything you would suggest to help narrow down the problem?  The
> ]following is being printed at the console repeatedly.
> ]
> ]2005-02-06 10:25:13.800 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
> ]2005-02-06 10:25:13.806 prebuffering pause
> ]2005-02-06 10:25:13.823 prebuffering pause
> ]2005-02-06 10:25:13.839 prebuffering pause
>
> This is a general XvMC on nvidia problem, not related to recent changes.
> The driver only provides eight XvMC surfaces, as compared with 32 XV
> surfaces, this is just does not seem to be enough when you have OSD and
> allow the player to skip.
>
> We could probably work around this problem by only skipping to I frames,
> handling fast forward differently, displaying all buffered frames before
> a skip, etc. but not in time for 0.17.
>
> -- Daniel
>