[mythtv-users] "prebuffering pause" and XvMC

[Stuart Felenstein]

I'm also noticing alot of prebuffering pauses.  Though I am running 24bpp mode and haven't changed it before my last recompile of Myth.  Could be a seperate issue.
Nothing seems to be particulary effected though.
 
Stuart

Andrew Dodd <atd7 at cornell.edu> wrote:

Just an FYI for some of you:

2-3 days ago I tried recompiling Myth with XvMC support. Oddly, it actually
made things SLOWER for me. I got frequent "prebuffering pause" messages, and
the video would be choppy, especially if the OSD were up. So I recompiled again
without XvMC. I noticed in various archives that a lot of people had
encountered similar "prebuffering pause" problems when using XvMC and had
ditched it.

I noticed today that at some point in the past few months, my default colordepth
had been reset from 24bpp to 16bpp. (Most of the X config programs seem to
prefer 16...)

Well, I changed my default depth back to good 'ole 24bpp, and tried recompiling
MythTV again with XvMC support back in.

Guess what? It works BEAUTIFULLY now.

Might be a good FAQ entry - Make sure you're in 24bpp mode, otherwise XvMC won't
work. (At least on a GeForce 4 Ti-series).

_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users at mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20040115/94a8b692/attachment.htm