On 6/5/05, Mario Limonciello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Tsai wrote: > > >On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:56:12AM -0400, Mario Limonciello wrote: > > > > > >>The particularly odd portion of this is that if XvMC output is > >>attempted several times repeatedly (with mythtv for example), it > >>will work around the 8-25th try. Once it has started to work during > >>a single X session, it will work until X is restarted, or logged out > >>of. At this point the 8-25 trick has to be tried again. This > >>problem is particularly annoying (especially until I found this > >>workaround), since I can't watch any HD content that I record. > >> > >> > > > >So if you disable XvMC, you can't watch any HD content? > > > >I thought all AMD64 CPUs would be beefy enough to do so ... I've been > >using --disable-xvmc with the "old" nvidia drivers (7174 I think) and > >have been able to watch HD fine on an Athlon64 3500+. > > > >I've never had any success with XvMC, but I've never had the patience > >to try something that fails 3 times in a row, let alone 7-24 times in > >a row :) > > > >--Rob > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > Thats the kind of odd part for me, HD content works fine at maybe 60-80 > cpu through mplayer or xine. Through myth I can think of two times that > HD played using Xv at 80 percent cpu. Every other time i've tried with > Xv in myth i'd encounter 100 percent cpu usage all by myth. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
As you know, I have the same issues on an AMD64 3800. Not using XvMC (though I desperately want to) I can get HD to playback if I a) Enable extra audio buffering and b) stop/restart several times. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
