Hardware Acceleration and Video Card settings....

[colinjones]

back on the road to trying to figure out why my video quality is so poor (jerky for all sources) after taking a break for a while as it was doing my head in!

just wanted to get a feel for what people are using as their settings for "Hardware Acceleration" and "Video Card" in the admin site under Media Directors. Especially those using the same mobo as me, the Abit M2HD - I think tkmedia uses it...

I haven't modified these settings from the last install I did and they are set to Standard Video card and xv. Anybody have any advice on what they "should" be set to? Do they make any difference? The mobo has a nVidia 7050PV and GeForce630a - should I switch it to the "GeForce or TNT" option? Does that do anything? And what about the hardware acceleration? It always seems to be xv, but shouldn't I have it on OpenGL? I thought that the whole UI was OpenGL.....

I've given up on installing newer drivers (using Beta4 so they are quite new anyway) this sometimes makes matters worse for me, and the default displays OK, just jerky - particularly noticable when scrolling ticker tape new feeds go across the screen...

[tkmedia]

See other post on this board or stop by chat

Basically u want 169.12 nvidia driver
Set all vlank options on in nvidia stettings
Add "UseEvent=true" in xorg


vblank 0n should stop tearing
useevents should stop stuttering (brings cpu usage down)

[colinjones]

Just asked the same question to you on the other thread! I have tried the 169.12 and Option "useevents" "true" option (in the device section), and all my vblank/sync options are turned on - same symtoms... what you list seems logical it just doesn't seem to get me anywhere in practice! And I seem to be having difficulty getting onto the chat, the java applet is refusing to connect so I can't get in there at the moment...  I just wish there was someway to capture/audit every video setting in your system and compare it with mine ... there must be something different somewhere but I'm stumped as to what it is!