[mythtv-users] nVidia 9600GT and XvMC - there or not?

[Mark Kendall]

2008/7/17 Robin Smith <1canuck2 at gmail.com>:
> So I set my composite to Enable and restart X. I know get different
> options in Playback. If I set my profile (created a custom one) to
> OpenGL I can choose Linear (HW), etc for deinterlacing, but it is
> horribly choppy on playback, then freezes (lots of audio buffer
> warnings). In general, the OpenGL performance is quite poor. Xv-blit
> seems to be the best

Unless you have a specific need to run something like compiz on your
desktop, you really don't want to enable composite. Mythtv makes no
use of the composite extension and it will only hurt performance
(especially for opengl playback) and probably interfere with vertical
sync.

Regards

Mark