On Wednesday 24 August 2005 02:07 pm, Todd Ignasiak wrote: > I noticed that Nvidia posted a new driver version, 7676, a week or so ago. > > I downloaded the AMD64 version, hoping to get reliable XvMC operation, > but it didn't have any noticeable improvements on my system. > > > XvMC still fails to initialize. I didn't bother messing with it any > more, but I assume it's still the same behavior as 7667, where you > have to try initializing it 20+ times, then finally you get lucky and > it works. After that it works every time.
What do you need XvMC for on an amd64 system? I can pretty easily decode, deinterlace, and display three 1080i streams simultaneously with pure software decoding on my dev system. Might be able to do four with a little tweaking, if I cared to. Granted, it's a dual-core 4400+, but that's similar enough to two 3500+ chips that I can't imagine 1080i not playing smoothly in software on almost any xp 64. On this machine, one 1080i stream doesn't even trip the powernowd thresholds, so the cpu stays downclocked/volted to it's minimum level - at that point, I'd rather keep load on the CPU and off of the video card so the videocard doesn't start adding more heat to the system. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
