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

[Thomas Hellström]

Paul Bender wrote:

> Thomas Hellstr?m 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.
>
>
> Yes, I will use the latest openChrome SVN. Should I use the latest DRM 
> CVS as well (currently, I am using 2.7.4)? With the build system I 
> have set up for MiniMyth, it is easy to build and run any version.
>
Please do!

> By the way, since my evenings are busy this week, it is unlikely that 
> I will get to this before the weekend.
>
No problems,

/Thomas

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