<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damian</b> <<a href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.co.uk">damian@gingermagic.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all,<br><br>I had another try with XvMC last night and actually got a bit further<br>with it. I'm only wanting it for standard defination playback, but as my<br>system specs aren't great I'm hoping that it will help with occasional
<br>jittery/stuttery playback I get (especially on BBC1).<br><br>I have three questions regarding XvMC:<br><br>1) What's the best way to tell if it's working or not?<br>I find the frontend log confusing.<br>Times when I've thought that it is working, the fronend it thowing out
<br>all sorts of odd info.<br>Time when I've though it's not it's throwing out different info.<br>What should I be looking for?<br><br>2) Is it still the case that BOBx2 is the only deinterlacer that works<br>
with XvMC or is that old information (it's in the Myth guide I was<br>looking at)<br>My previous de-interlacing preference was 'kernel'<br><br>3) The times when I've thought that I did have XvMC working, it's had
<br>kind of flickery lines at the top and/or bottom of the screen and and<br>logos on screen look flickery. Is that normal?<br>Is XvMC a sacrifice in quality for the sake of speed?<br>I thougth it was just a speed increse.
<br><br>It's frustrating that I spend most of my day at a Windows machine, which<br>is where my email is set up for this list. It makes it so much harder to<br>just send a few lines from the logs to enquire about.<br>
<br>Cheers<br>Damian</blockquote><div><br>You'll know XvMC is working when you have a black and white OSD (on screen display). In order to use Bob or One field deinterlace, XvMC must be working. I would suggest compiling the Nvidia drivers from source, this seemed to be the best route for me. My setup is around 4 months old, but you may find my installation notes useful. Go here:
<a href="http://www.djk-rite.com">www.djk-rite.com</a> and search mythtv in the blog.<br><br>TK<br><br></div><br></div>