[mythtv-users] XvMC output not working

Mario Limonciello mario.mailing at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 16:26:19 UTC 2005


Robert Tsai wrote:

>On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:56:12AM -0400, Mario Limonciello wrote:
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>>The particularly odd portion of this is that if XvMC output is
>>attempted several times repeatedly (with mythtv for example), it
>>will work around the 8-25th try.  Once it has started to work during
>>a single X session, it will work until X is restarted, or logged out
>>of. At this point the 8-25 trick has to be tried again.  This
>>problem is particularly annoying (especially until I found this
>>workaround), since I can't watch any HD content that I record.
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>So if you disable XvMC, you can't watch any HD content?
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>I thought all AMD64 CPUs would be beefy enough to do so ... I've been
>using --disable-xvmc with the "old" nvidia drivers (7174 I think) and
>have been able to watch HD fine on an Athlon64 3500+.
>
>I've never had any success with XvMC, but I've never had the patience
>to try something that fails 3 times in a row, let alone 7-24 times in
>a row :)
>
>--Rob
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Thats the kind of odd part for me, HD content works fine at maybe 60-80
cpu through mplayer or xine.  Through myth I can think of two times that
HD played using Xv at 80 percent cpu.  Every other time i've tried with
Xv in myth i'd encounter 100 percent cpu usage all by myth.


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