[mythtv-users] XvMC and high CPU usage

[Jerry Rubinow]

On 3/21/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> On FC4, I get the grey OSD and the logs report XvMC is being used but my
> CPU usage is high.  I can *barely* get the video to play properly using
> libmpeg2 but the picture seems a little jumpy.  My configure script says
> I'm linking with libXvMCNVIDIA as expected.  My OpenGL Vsync is working
> as I'm using the 7676 nvidia driver (changing it makes things worse for
> libmpeg2 performance).

Did you try turning off OpenGL Vsync?  It may make libmpeg2 worse, but
it improved XvMC for me.

-Jerry