I (finally) have a working R4V5 instalation and I'm very happy indeed! I have one small problem and one question:

The problem - I notice when I am watching a program (recorded or live) that a little flash occurs once in a while. It seems to be a frame shifted to the left by about half the screen. I thought using the hardware decoder on the ATI card might fix this, and that leads me to my question: Is the decoder on this card supported (perhaps through XvMC)? The WIKI kind of says yes: http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=HollywoodPlus
But Xsecrets definately says no: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=605i


Furthermore, I can't get XvMC to work, but that's hardly a surprise.

P.S. Did I post this in the right place?

Thanks
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3GHz P4 w/ 512MB RAM
FIC 865 Dynasty (Intel 865PE chipset)
ATI Radeon 9200SE
Hauppauge PVR 250
Crappy old TV

well seems like somewhere along the way I heard of an xvmc driver that worked for an ati card, but even if there was one out there the xvmc support in knoppmyth is compiled with the nvidia xvmc driver, so it would not work. Besides, the only problem I've ever known xvmc to fix is high cpu usage. other than that it just causes problems, and lots of them.

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Like Xsecrets says, XvMC is pretty broken under Myth. I've heard that mplayer can use it successfully, but playing with XvMC in Myth causes many problems -- lockups of the frontend whenever you skip forward or backward, lockups when the onscreen display fades out, "shudders" in time where the video rapidly jumps around, etc.

I had an exchange with Isaac Richards on the myth-user list where he implied these problems are fixed in CVS, but I have not heard of anyone having success even with that version. And Isaac never came out and said "I'm using it and it works." He did say, "I'm tired of people saying XvMC doesn't work when they haven't tried it under CVS," which fits me so I dropped it.

For now.

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one thing to note I have used xvmc under even the release version successfully for standard def video, however the problem comes in when using it for hdtv on my system. My guess is it's a cpu load thing, and xvmc is broken whenever you have a fairly high cpu load even when using it.

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