Hello Ivor,
1) Video playback from hard drive/through the network is very jittery 2) DVD playback slightly jittery and some discs ghosts badly
For these you need to check if your CPU is maxed out.
Don't seem too bad - roughly only 25%-50% of the CPU is used when playing DVD:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9748 root 15 0 34124 33m 11m R 31.3 7.0 0:47.88 xine
yet it's jittery. It's not that noticeable, just when the screen moves, it's there.
3) WHen using mplayer, the *whole* screen inverts and stays inverted even when exiting mplayer and only way to reset it is to restart X (although xine plays back the video fine but it's quite jittery) 4) The screen occasionally inverts even when not using mplayer and only restarting X will fix the problems
This might be a unichrome XV bug-ette. Had similar symptoms myself with XV recently but haven't had time to debug.
You could try using the XvMC acceleration in mplayer/mythtv which doesn't have the screen inversion problem.
How do I use the XvMC acceleration with mplayer?
Possibly/probably a unichrome driver bug which should be raised on the unichrome mailing lists.
What version of the unichrome driver is that? i.e. have you built the latest from source or are you using a binary package?
Have posted on them, no reply. I'm using the binary packages found here
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/debian/unichrome/
Installed libxine1, libxvmcw1, libxvmc1, xlibs-static-dev, xlibs-static-pic, and xserver-xfree86 packages from that URL.
Thanks very much for your help again
Cheers - Piers _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
