[mythtv-users] vdpau failure

Paul Kendall paul at kcbbs.gen.nz
Fri Dec 5 04:42:45 UTC 2008


On Friday 05 December 2008 17:20:43 Seth Daniel wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 04:57:12PM +1300, Paul Kendall wrote:
> > I too have a 8400GS and If I use KDE4 desktop I cannot play anything. If
> > I switch to a simple window manager, xfce, then I can play anything. So,
> > it seems very much dependent on what window manager you use and how much
> > graphics memory is being used.
>
> Interesting.  I'm using openbox and no desktop environment.  openbox is
> about as light as it gets unless you use no window manager at all.
>
> When you say you 'can play anything' what have you tried to play?  What
> is 'anything'?
Ok, sorry.

We have a channel TV1 which is 720P. When I use KDE4 mythfronend fails with
errors about cannot allocate memory etc. When I switched to xfce I could play
that channel.

There are still problems, of course, but I does at least start up!

I'll see if I can get more details and post to the list later.

Cheers,
Paul


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