Lan Barnes wrote: > On Sun, December 16, 2007 9:20 pm, Joshua Penix wrote: >> On Dec 16, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Lan Barnes wrote: >> >>> Unless there is an unreported conflict between PVR-250s and PVR-150s. >> >> Before your re-installation, try taking the PVR-250 out. Then at >> least you'll be in the same situation as with your old box - a pair of >> PVR-150s, and the comparison of "the old box didn't do it" will be >> more telling. >> > > A good test, certainly, but I have another observation to share that begs > a different test first. > > On Sunday we went to a seasonal party in the afternoon (stick with me, > this is going somewhere), and I set the Chargers/Lions to record. We got > home late, and I started watching on the TV downstairs (output through > Gus's nVidia card that I downloaded drivers for my own inadequate self). > > The playback was herky-jerky in video and sound. Awful. If it hadn't been > Chargers football, I'd have deleted it right then. > > Then the 5-yr-old kicked me off in favor of Scoobey-Doo, so I went > upstairs to the remote FE on my wife's Linux desktop. Watched the first > three quarters (who _are_ these guys ... and what have they done with the > 2007 San Diego Chargers?). It was smooth as silk, sound and video. > > So I'm thinkin' the root cause is probably the Lan-loaded nVidia drivers, > and the preferred solution is the dongle on your card. And then I can > return the nVidia to Gus. Everybody is served and my conscience is > lightened (I love to abuse Gus in writing, but not in fact). > > Does that sound reasonable?
Are you using the XvMC portion of the drivers? XvMC has many problems, and I have found it is really only usable for playing DVD's. Pretty much any machine with over a 1GHz processor can do playback without XvMC. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
