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

Steve Malenfant smalenfant at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 21:06:43 UTC 2006


What's the speed of you CPU?
If you start mythfrontend from a console, do you get "NVP: Prebuffering
pause" ?
If you don't, can you tell us which settings you are using?

Thanks.  Steve

On 2/23/06, Ray Lischner <linux at tempest-sw.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:09 am, James Dastrup wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> "Just buy a faster CPU instead" is not a perfect solution, either. It's
> expensive, much more expensive than simply buying a new video card.
>
> To upgrade my wife's computer to play HD, she would need a new
> mainboard, CPU, and RAM. Instead, I got her a decent FX5200 card for
> under $50. With 0.19 and the Chromakey hack, she has color OSD, clean
> HD playback, and I have not heard any complaints.
> --
> Ray Lischner
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