I haven't seen any discussion on a problem that I have been observing since changing to the vdpau renderer. Since I installed an HD-PVR for my cable company's STB, I've been forced to use vdpau with my GeForce 9500 GT (1Gb RAM). 90% of the time it works great; however, after some amount of (unknown but > 8 hours of recording viewing) time I begin to see some tearing and stuttering during playback of a recording. This seems to be a prelude to what I call the star-studded screen of death. When these symptoms develop, once I end the playback, the screen goes black with a sprinkling of white dots in a random pattern. Once this happens, I haven't found any way back except to re-boot. I have tried restarting X (gdm) and unloading and reloading the nvidia driver module with no success of resetting the video. If no one else is seeing this, I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't a hardware failure of some sort. The board is a fairly new MSI PCIe x16 board. The only clue is having recently started using vdpau. Anyone have an idea of what to try next?<br>
<br>I am running Ubuntu 7.04 and MythTV trunk v22864 and nvidia driver 190.42.<br><br>-- Ken E.<br>