[mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Jerry Rubinow]

On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD, 10%
> > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm using an
> > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried every
> > > version up to the current 8XXX).
> > >
> > >  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong from the
> > > following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about?
> > > What are my options for fixing this?
> >
> > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is nagging
> > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing
> > well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your horizontal
> > resolution to something smaller, like 1024?
>
> No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.
>

No luck.  I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to 800x600
and it's still slow playing HD.  Not stuttering, just slower than real
time.  I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight
following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 2.6.14, on a P4 2.8.

I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest things to try?