[mythtv-users] 0.19, XvMC, and Prebuffer pause

[James Dastrup]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:01 -0600, Gavin Haslett wrote:
> Uh... I'm using XvMC with no problems. Granted I have no HD content, all
> SD... But it works like a champ for me. No prebuffering pauses, color
> OSD (with the hack installed), and around 20% max CPU on an AMD 800
> (hence why no HD).
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:17 -0500, Preston Crow wrote:
> <snipped>
> 
> ...as I was saying, I have yet to find someone using XvMC without any
> problems.
> 

My whole point of this topic is if you want to use older, slower
hardware for HD content, XvMC is not a perfect solution. Sometimes the
problems are minor annoyances, other times the problems are a show
stopper. I would suggest to anyone to just buy a faster CPU instead.