[mythtv] A couple of questions about mythtv 0.19
Stuart Auchterlonie
stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Tue Jul 11 19:08:46 UTC 2006
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:47:11PM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 1:11 pm, Hamish wrote:
>
> > BTW... I found why the stop/start was happening... In a word DRI. WHy? I
> > have no idea, unless you can think of a reason why DRI (XOrg r300 drivers
> > from CVS/git on a saphire radeon X550) would cause the pausing.
Well the DRI is the basis of accelerated video and support for the
newer radeons is considered experimental.
>
> Myth tries to use various methods to provide smoother video playback (that
> mplayer/xine/etc don't) - DRI on ATI cards is one of them. On some setups
> (don't know if it's config, driver version, specific hardware, whatever) we
> get back bad data, and that causes really bad video playback. Could probably
> work around it by not trusting the driver so much, but there's been no
> incentive to.
>
I'll be moving up to this platform once it passes some tests
so i'll keep an eye out during testing....
Stuart
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