On 1/16/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve... I'm assuming that you mean you can play HDTV with one of those > processors and an Nvidia card correct? :-P I still couldn't get my ATI to > play HD worth a hoot, and went out and purchased a cheap Nvidia 6200OC > tonight. I've gotten HD to play back fairly smoothly now, but have a bit of > playing to get done. > > On 1/6/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 06 January 2006 00:05, Jerry Rubinow wrote: > > > On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote: > > > > > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD, > 10% > > > > > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime. I'm using > an > > > > > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried > every > > > > > > version up to the current 8XXX). > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there anything I should check? Anything obviously wrong from > the > > > > > > following details? Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about? > > > > > > What are my options for fixing this? > > > > > > > > > > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is > nagging > > > > > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing > > > > > well at certain resolutions? Have you tried changing your > horizontal > > > > > resolution to something smaller, like 1024? > > > > > > > > No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight. Thanks. > > > > > > No luck. I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to 800x600 > > > and it's still slow playing HD. Not stuttering, just slower than real > > > time. I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight > > > following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 2.6.14, on a P4 2.8. > > > > > > I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest things > to > > > try? > > > > poney up for a faster processor? I know its prbly not an optioin, but with > a > > 3.0 or 3.2GHz cpu you'll be able to play back HD without XvMC. > > Does OpenGL sync work with XvMC? I dunno, but might be worth a try. Also, > try > > disabling any deinterlacing? Oh, what about audio buffering options, have > you > > played with those? > > Also, don't forget you have to restart mythfrontend everytime you make one > of > > these changes. minor bug... > > > > -- > > Steve > > _______________________________________________
Hopefully getting the Nvidia will do it. I've got a modest Athlon XP 2500 powering my rig, but the XvMC offset from my FX 5200 takes the load down to ~45% when playing back a 1080i stream (720p is somewhere is the 50% range, though I don't know if that's just what top decided to throw up and there is no difference). So I would assume a decent P4 (2.4ish) should work just fine. Something less should work well too, but a 2.4 would give you enough overhead for realtime comm flagging as well. Not sure why the above poster had to increase the ring-buffer size, this has never been something I've had to tamper with to get my HD working well, but I'm glad no less :) Chad _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
