[mythtv-users] XvMC causes "Failed to Reinit Video" on nForce 6150

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 20:04:12 UTC 2007


On 27/01/07, Edward Coffey <edward.coffey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just one last niggle left in my system - the CPU can't quite handle HD
> content - it plays, and the audio is fine, but the video drops lots of
> frames. So I figured I'd use XvMC, but whenever I enable it and try to
> watch any TV it briefly shows a black screen with the OSD, then a
> second later goes back to the fullscreen menu and displays a
> confirmation screen telling me "Failed to Reinit Video".
>
> The machine is running Debian Testing (Etch) for AMD64, and I've
> configured /etc/X11/XvMCConfig to use
> /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1. I'm using an nForce 6150 GPU, and
> the nVidia binary driver 9746.
>
> Here's what it tells me in the log:
> =======
> 2007-01-27 23:47:49.011 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2007-01-27 23:47:49.012 Using protocol version 31
> 2007-01-27 23:47:49.270 DPMS Deactivated
> 2007-01-27 23:47:49.293 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,2,44100)
> 2007-01-27 23:47:49.314 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed
> 2007-01-27 23:47:49.314 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video Texture'
> X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
>   Major opcode:  140
>   Minor opcode:  14
>   Resource id:  0x159

What's the output of

# xvinfo


Nick
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