[mythtv-users] nvidia mx 440 - tv blanks after a few minutes

[J. Donavan Stanley]

malcolm wrote:

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>From: "J. Donavan Stanley" <jdonavan at jdonavan.net>
>Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 5:42 PM
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>>>XvMC?  Not sure what that is exactly.  My OSD while watching TV is in
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>color.
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>>>If I pause I get blue background with a red boarder and white writing.  I
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>>>not have the deinterlace filter turned on.  I tried turning it on but
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>that
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>>>looked worse so I turned it back off.  That's only for monitors right?
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>>XvMC is a way to accelerate MPEG2 playback using your video hardware.
>>It also precludes using things like deinterlacing filters.  The
>>deinterlace filter isn't just for monitors, it's for anything that's not
>>using an interlaced signal, and since the Nvidia drivers aren't
>>outputting an interlaced signal that's pretty much everything.  That
>>being said, on some chipsets the drivers appear to deinterlace
>>automagicly so it may not be needed.
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>I think I got XvMC working.  I enabled it in settings.pro and recompiled
>Myth.  Now when I pause live TV I get grey displays instead of color like
>you had mentioned earlier.
>I'll see if the picture gets any better.
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It might actually get worse.