[mythtv-users] Choppy Playback

Mark Beaver beaverm at corp.earthlink.net
Mon Nov 8 20:07:35 UTC 2004


Ok, out of curiosity, I have X.org, not Xfree86, I see that ATI has the 
drivers for Xfree86 4.3 (among others) does anyone know if they're cross 
compatible?

Thanks,

mark

Prash wrote:

>The radeon/ati drivers shipped with the distro do *NOT* support tvout.
>To get tvout working you need the fglrx drivers from either ATI
>website or rpm.livna.org. Gatos is another option.
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>TVout will work with vesa but your performance will suffer drastically.
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>On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:58:12 -0500, Mark Beaver
><beaverm at corp.earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Yeah, an ATI radeon 9200 SE is what I have, but I'm using Knoppmyth and it
>>just installs the vesa driver, when I turn it to radeon my tv output stops
>>working (go figure)
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Prash
>>Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5:59 AM
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy Playback
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>>try turning on Xv support in playback settings. Have you got hardware
>>accelerated graphics?
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>>On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:57:48 -0500, Mark Beaver
>><beaverm at corp.earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>I have a 850 Mhz machine w/ 512 megs of ram and a 40 Gig hard drive.
>>>
>>>Recording is fine, that is done with a PVR 250, so I'm pretty sure it's
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>>not
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>>>the video (but I could be wrong)
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>>>It gets really choppy during playback, including when I'm watching live
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>>tv,
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>>>the processor usage runs up to around 60-80%. And I'm curious about one
>>>other thing, I see 2-5 mythfrontend processes running, and about the same
>>>back end, is that normal?
>>>
>>>
>>>Mark
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