On Monday 14 Feb 2005 04:41, Adam Felson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:56 -0500, Eric Webb wrote: > > On Saturday 12 February 2005 08:28 pm, Adam Felson wrote: > > I left settings.pro alone (stock).. we'll try XvMC accelleration later > > on. I did some looking, and I feel pretty good about my xorg.conf now. > > And, yeah, I've been through epiawiki and via arena... but I'm still > > clueless about where to go from here. > > My experience is that xvmc isn't worth the bother. With xv (xvideo, > nonaccelerated frame buffer output), I never use more than 60% CPU and > never miss a frame. > Well your experience is just your experience isn't it? With 5MBs DVB-T my M9000 struggles without XvMC with a high bitrate DVD it stutters. Of course the cle266 has the capability of decoding up to four mpeg streams simultaneously which you'll never achieve using software.
Also some people may be running passively cooled boxes, or simply prefer the idea of not running their machine maxxed out all the time.... Finally the MPEG out through the unichrome chipset runs through the HQV filters which can do de-blocking. Last time I compared native XV to XvMC on my box the XvMC was certainly of higher visual quality. > > To recap: I can fire up the front end, see menus, EPG, but when I try to > > view video -- live or recorded -- I get a blank screen and the console > > locks up. If I telnet in, I see frontend complaining that it times out > > waiting for free video buffers. So let's say that I compile MythTV > > without XvMC, and I'm running X.Org 6.7 with the included "via" driver. > > Is this recent enough? > > Don't. Just compile it with the XV output. Leave the xvmc junk > commented out. > Ho hum, I take it you've had difficulties using xvmc then? You could perhaps also suggest leaving the VIA junk behind and buying hardware from a manufacturer who bothers to support their customers on linux. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased?
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