[mythtv-users] Libmpeg and weird colors

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:30, Alex Brekken wrote:
> Hmmm, and I always thought that an Athlon 3000 or higher could play smooth
> HD with no Xvmc... What's your CPU look like on the AMD box when playing HD
> content?
>
> On 11/14/05, Robert Lundy <robert.lundy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Have been suprised with how well my P4M 1.6ghz laptop has been doing as a
> > frontend, considering its got ATI graphics, meaning no xvmc. Compared to
> > my AMD athlon 3200, which plays HD choppily without xvmc, the results
> > have been awesome. Why are these intel chips so much better?
> >
> > Anyway, to get the smooth(er) playback, I started using libmpeg-but the
> > colors are almost like a negative-people are green, pizza looked blue.
> > Weird.
> >
> > Is this typical behavior? I'm thinking its reading something strange
> > about the colorspace. Video is the Radeon mobility M300 PCIe in a Dell
> > inspiron 9300, using the newest ATI proprietary driver (released
> > 11/11/05?).
> >

it should be able to, my two Athlon64 3200+ computers can do it with ~40% cpu 
usage.

Steve