[mythtv-users] HD, XvMC, and realtime

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/6/06, Gary Dezern <gary at garyndenise.org> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > top posting aside...
> >
> > what version of the nvidia drivers are you running? What Xorg version?
> >
> > I noticed that with Xorg 6.8 and the nvidia driver 8756 my Xorg usage
> > spikes consuming all available CPU with prebuffer messages in the
> > mythfrontend log now. I get it more with some recordings than others.
> > This only started happening with 8756 as I used the same version of
> > fixes as I was running with 7676 (just recompiled).
> >
> xorg is 6.8.2 with gentoo's r7 patches.  nvidia driver is 8756.  7676
> isn't available to me, as I need to use a current current to support my
> Aver A180 HDTV tuner.

7676 has nothing to do with the A180, your thinking of a kernel version.

I'm tempted to upgrade toe Xorg 7.0 to see if it plays with 8756 nicer.


> Unfortunately, I'm still getting nowhere discovering what the message
> indicates.  Is it pausing the display of video in order to fill a
> pre-buffer?  Perhaps it's pausing the filling of the pre-buffer in order
> to display it on the video?  These two things point at opposite sides of
> the pipeline, so it's somewhat important to understand before trying to
> solve the problem.  I've searched around, but can't seem to find
> anything that really explains what the problem is - only stuff that
> takes WAGS on how to fix it.. :(

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Steve
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