[Kwintv] Re: OpenGL view mode and a new threading solution

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Tue Jun 8 16:56:24 CEST 2004


On June 7, 2004 13:09, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:
> BTW, finally managed to get my f****** Radeon drivers to work (SuSE
> provides fixed packages). They are quite crappy (XV support is broken), but
> I can watch TV in OpenGL mode with 1% (read: "one") CPU load (kdetv + X,
> Athlon 2000, Radeon 9500Pro). Cool ;-) However, the plugin always crashes
> at shutdown. I had the opportuinty to check it at a friend of mine with an
> NVIDIA GFMX400 card, it worked stable with it, but he had 11% CPU load
> (Athlon 2400).

  Sounds impressive!  I don't think I will be hacking on kdetv anytime in the 
near future, btw, since I no longer have a PC with TV access.  Eventually 
maybe I'll get a USB tuner for my laptop, but until then, no TV.

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George Staikos
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