> >I just wanted to chime in: > >After using MythTV for nearly two years, I moved to an apartment where I >didn't have cable. I've moved again and now have cable, so this past weekend I >got my MythTV box (and LAN fileserver) back up and running. I'm running Gentoo >with a 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 kernel. After much tinkering, I am down to just a few >minor issues. One of them was the video jitter when menus and other OSD >elements were displayed and Xvmc was enabled (I have a GeForce FX 5200 driving >my Samsung 30" CRT HDTV with a 540p signal via a DVI-HDMI cable). Disabling >Xvmc was not an option, as this is only a lowly Athlon XP 2500+ (overclocked >to 2.0 GHz) with two PVR-250 cards and a FusionHD 5 Lite card on the way to >replace a PVR-250. > >I spent a couple hours wrestling with this issue last night, trying various >nVidia driver settings (I had noticed it originally with the 6629 drivers, >jumped straight to the latest 8178 drivers in Portage and still had the issue, >so apparently it's not the >7676 issue with OpenGL Vsync others have >mentioned). I played with nearly every option in nvidia-settings to no avail. >I tried nearly every OSD-related setting I could find in the front end >settings without success. Finally I stumbled upon this thread and this driver >option. Adding the following line to my "Device" section in /usr/X11/xorg.conf >completely solved the jitter w/OSD issue I was having: > >Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "true" > >So nice to be able to pause TV, schedule recordings, and skip commercials >again (after a few months with just regular cable, I still find myself >watching the commercials because I haven't yet got into the mindset that I can >skip them :). Still need to fix LIRC, tweak the overscan settings, make sure >MythWeb is working, replace the failing drive in my RAID array (1.04 TB >RAID-5, also used as NAS; 8 Maxtor 160GB ATA/133 drives attached to a 3ware >7506-8 hardware RAID controller, but the SMART data for all the drives say >they're OK, so I'm just waiting for it to actually fail completely), add the >HDTV tuner card I've ordered, and replace the current sound card with one with >optical S/PDIF output to connect to my AV receiver). > >Thanks to all the developers for this awesome software! Lookin' forward to >0.19 (is there a list somewhere of the new features?) And thanks to Dan for >pointing me towards this fix. > > Thanks too Dave - confirming this option works on non-Quadro cards means I can sell my otherwise over-the-top video card and stick something a little cheaper in! Glad it was useful to you.
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