[mythtv-users] Nvidia just released 8756.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/14/2006 05:05 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 4/14/06, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 23:35 -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>     
>>> Brad, I wonder if there are other options that may affect this. Could
>>> you post your Screen and Device sections? Also, do you have Composite
>>> and RENDER both on?
>>>       
>> Quote from Andy Ritger @ nVidia:
>> - A Video Overlay Xv Adaptor is obviously fundamentally incompatible
>>   with Damage/Composite.  Should X drivers no longer advertise
>>   Video Overlay Xv adaptors if they are running in an X server that
>>   includes Composite support?
>>
>> Composite can not be used with XVideo overlay, and ChromaKeyOSD
>> relies on XVideo overlay. By enabling Composite you are basically
>> enabling "XvmcUsesTextures" which breaks ChromaKeyOSD.
>>
>> Note also that XVideo does not yet play nice with the Composite
>> Extension, so if you enable Composite you should shut down your
>> composite manager before starting up XVideo playback.
>>
>> BTW If you want to have see some semi-transparent MythTV windows,
>> you can make MythTV ignore XVideo by defining the NO_XV environment
>> variable. I can run 4 SDTV instances of mythfrontend on my CPU
>> without XVideo... This will, of course, use significantly more CPU
>> than using XVideo.
>>     
>
> Daniel, interesting information. So let me see if I understand...
>
> 1) if using XvMC, turn off Composite
> 2) if using Xv, turn off Composite
>   

AIUI,

1) if using XvMC /with ChromakeyOSD/, turn off Composite
2) if using Xv, turn off Composite
3) if using XvMC without ChromakeyOSD, take your choice...

Mike