Mark, I may have been too hasty. Couldn't fully test last night since my wife is a Survivor freak and had to watch. The little testing I did the picture quality is as close as I think I can get it. However now this morning I have had 2 hard lockups, can ping the box but that's all. I'll keep you posted.
--- "Mark L. Cukier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howard: > > I'll have to try recompiling tonight... did you > alter any other > settings.pro options? (besides XvMC?). > > Just so I'm clear, in the end you ended up keeping > MythTV set to use XvMC? > > And, you're settings.pro had: > > XvMC on, OpenGL on. > > Thanks! Looking forward to giving this a try! > > - Mark > > Howard Cokl wrote: > > > >I've been messing with this most of the day, > benefit of being a stay at home > >dad, and I think I have mine figured out. I turned > off xvmc in MythFrontend > >Setup and in my xorg.conf, this caused the a > greater load on the CPU but the > >picture in Myth is the same as straight from > DirecTV. I think the reason > >that DVD playback looked so good while TV looked > uncrisp is that the default > >playback command has mplayer use -vo xv instead of > -vo xvmc. > > > >But I need xvmc, I don't think my athlon XP 2700+ > can handle HDTV without it. > >So I followed this thread > >http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/116194 > >all except the modeline, recompiled mythtv with > OpenGL, and added Option > >"XvMCUsesTextures" "True" to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf > . This seems to give me a > >picture that is the same as directv and watching > live tv puts the cpu at 86% > >idle using encoder 1 which is the freestyle card. > > > >Of course I'm going to have to dick around with it > some more since my AA 9A60 > >should be here this week but now it seems that all > is good. > > > >On Tuesday 15 March 2005 19:32, Chad Delatte wrote: > > > > > >>Alright, excuse me for my newbness here, but yes I > >>meant to say the itvc16 chipset. > >> > >>I'm trying to establish that the problem we are > having > >>is with the newer revision of the pvr 250. > >> > >>So far we have the following list of people with > the > >>new cards and have the same issue with sharpness. > >> > >>hojoloco, > >>You also have a newer design card and maybe the > cause > >>of the problems. > >> > >>1. Me ITVC-16 > >>2. hojoloco ITVC-15 (but it's a frestyle) > >>3. dan ITVC-16 > >> > >>ross.campbell , I did everything in your list > except > >>for > >>1. try a different decoder card (my M-179 had poor > >>quality compared to my pvr-250) ----Have one on > >>ordser, but think I got ripped off on ebay > >>2. upgrade/downgrade your video driver and hack on > the > >>config files to optimize for the best resolution > and > >>refresh rate for outputting recorded TV ----- Not > sure > >>how to do this. > >> > >>mark, > >>I noticed when I went to lower settings i had your > >>problem. May want to start a thread about that > one. > >> > >>__________________________________________________ > >>Do You Yahoo!? > >>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > >>http://mail.yahoo.com > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > ____________________________ > *Mark L. Cukier*, /Design Engineer/ > P&E Microcomputer Systems > 710 Commonwealth Avenue > Boston, MA 02215 > _________________________________ > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > phone : (617) 353-9206 x19 > fax : (617) 353-9205 > _________________________________ > > visit us on the web at: http: //www.pemicro.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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