>>>>> Well XvMC was working for me just last evening.  I had to restart X this
>>>>> morning for some reason or another, and now it is again not working with
>>>>> that same BadAlloc error.  What can be causing these anomolies?
>>
>> That was the same giveaway for me this morning too, the color OSD.
>>
>> I would think my machine should be able to handle HD without xvmc, but
>> it can't.
>>
>> Athon64 3200+
>> 1 Gig PC3200 Ram
>> Asus 68V SE Deluxe
>> Nvidia 6600 GT
>> Gentoo Linux 2005.0 (Compiled in 64 bit)
>>
>> I'm completely taxed and lagging away on hd without xvmc in myth.  It
>> plays fine with about 90 percent cpu usage in mplayer.  With xvmc I'm at
>> about 60-70 cpu usage (when its working).
> That's weird cause my frontend is an Athlon64 3000, 512megs, the
> videocard is a cheap 6200 PCI Express card and using the soundcard on
> the motherboard I can get by without XvMC. I'm running Centos 4 but
> that doesn't really matter much and I'm running a build of 2.6.12-rc3.
  
I'm running a variation of a 2.6.11 kernel, however I really doubt that
would be the cause.  I'm using an audigy 2, so I would doubt that would
be it either.  Hmm well I'm not sure what to think.

My XvMC is similarly intermittent. At first it consistently fails, then suddenly starts working; at that point it will continue to work until I terminate that particular X session. I also have an Athlon64-based machine; I sense a pattern here. Perhaps a word-size difference is causing an uninitialized field in the XvMC implementation or client protocol exchange?

I tried enabling XvmcUsesTextures, but it had no effect.

FYI, my system (Athlon64 3500+, MSI K8N Neo Platinum, 1GB PC3200 RAM, GeForce FX5200 AGP 8x) can display 1080i live TV in Myth with about 66% CPU utilization using Xv, and about 33% CPU utilization using XvMC. I'm running SuSE 9.2 with a 2.6.11.7 kernel and using the 1.0.7174 nVidia driver.

    - Paul Milazzo


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