On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, John Kuhn wrote: > Will Dormann wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Has anybody noticed stability problems with XvMC and 0.17 or later? > > When I fast forward a lot or press the pause button and let it go for > > a while, when I unpause it my machine is locks up. > > > > I should mention that I have *no* hard lockup problems with 0.16 > > > > What made me test the CVS version is that I recently realized that > > Live TV doesn't seem to play well with XvMC enabled on 0.16. I'm > > using Bob Deinterlacing with this patch: > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/87191 > > > > The OSD flickers, which I can mostly live with. But it seems that if > > the OSD is on the screen for too long, it can cause the video to go > > corrupt. What seems to trigger this is watching Live TV, then > > changing channels. It looks like having the OSD up while changing > > channels causes mythfrontend to hang. I can exit X and restart it to > > get up and running again, though. (Compared to 0.17 where I have to > > hit the power switch) > > > I have the same issues as well.. i had to disable it.. > > --John
0.17 had some serious problems with XvMC. Using recent CVS's tho has been much better for XvMC stability again. I use it all the time again. Brian
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