[Openchrome-users] Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Hanging on Video Exit via xvmc-vld

[Sam Davies]

I'll get sources for X and openchrome and give it a go then.

Am I right in thinking that I shouldn't need to recompile myth
whenever I recompile xvmc. Sorry for asking stupid questions - I'm
normally a binary person...

cheers

sam

On 1/9/06, Thomas Hellstr?m <unichrome at shipmail.org> wrote:
> Paul Bender wrote:
>
> > Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
> >
> >> Paul Bender wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sam Davies wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi there
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a EPIA SP13000 which was running FC4 with the RPMs from
> >>>> http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC4/RPMS/ with mythTV using via
> >>>> xvmc-vld mpeg2 decoding, and despite a few glitches, all was fine.
> >>>>
> >>>> I then needed to update X, and did so with yum update xorg-x11\* (with
> >>>> the epia repositories set up as detailed). Although xine still seems
> >>>> to work fine with the mpeg acceleration, mythtv plays video fine with
> >>>> acceleration, however, when you try to exit watching a video, a half
> >>>> blue, half black screen is shown for a couple of seconds. The system
> >>>> then returns to a half-rendered myth screen, but the system seems to
> >>>> have hung.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have tried getting the latest version of mythtv from svn and
> >>>> recompiling, but the same problem occurs.
> >>>>
> >>>> I seem to remember reading about something similar about this on one
> >>>> of the mailing lists a while ago, but I can't seem to find it.
> >>>>
> >>>> My X log doesn't seem register any errors at the point of crashing.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks in advance
> >>>>
> >>>> sam
> >>>>
> >>>> kernel: 2.6.12-1.1447 (with drm module)
> >>>> X: 6.8.99.903-0
> >>>> myth: from svn revision 8525
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In developing MiniMyth <http://linpvr.org>, I encountered the same
> >>> thing on the CN400 based motherboards. It appears that the problem
> >>> started after the big Xv update in the unichrome drivers. As a
> >>> result, have not upgraded X beyond 6.8.2 and I have not upgraded the
> >>> unichrome drivers beyond the 20050815 snapshot.
> >>>
> >> Hmm, You guys are not talking about this that got fixed in November,
> >> are you?
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> r77 | totte | 2005-11-15 22:01:54 +0100 (Tue, 15 Nov 2005) | 3 lines
> >>
> >> - Fix Xv surface destruction and re-allocation.
> >>  (Reported by Cedric Berger).
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > I do not believe so. When I so that show up in the change logs, I
> > updated and tried it. I still had the same problem.
> >
> > For me, since the earlier version works fine, it has not been a high
> > priority to track down the problem. Currently my SP800E is not hooked
> > up. However, since it appears that someone else is having the same
> > problem, I guess I will hook up my SP800E and generate some debug logs.
> >
> Great.
> If possible, use latest openchrome svn. I just added some stuff that
> protects against XvMC surface- and context freeing issues. I doubt that
> this is the cause, however.
>
> /Thomas
>
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