[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 8.10

[Jake Anderson]

Brian Wood wrote:
> Nick F wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:02 PM, James Crow <james at ultratans.com
>> <mailto:james at ultratans.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I was feeling adventurous this morning and decided to upgrade my
>>     Mythbuntu 8.04.1 system to 8.10. 
>>
>>
>> My experience upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 was relatively painless. 
>> The only 'gotcha' I encountered was after upgrading my video performance
>> was terrible (with an integrated nvidia card on the motherboard) - HD
>> playback stuttered really badly even though had been good before. 
>> glxgears went from about 2,000 before the upgrade to about 1,200 which
>> was another indication.  It turns out the upgrade had turned on some
>> sort of special graphics effects.  As soon as I turned effects back to
>> 'none' glxgears improved, and HD performance was restored.
>>
>> So in case anyone else encounters this - try turning off all effects
>> before meddling with video playback profiles in myth.
>>     
>
> What sort of effects, are you running compiz or the like?
>
> beww
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I believe compiz is on by default in ubuntu these days. If it detects 
the ability to push OpenGL then compiz will start.
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