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for all of us talking about the weirdness that we experience with auto setting on resolution on 8X00 motherboards, we're starting to confuse people coming to this thread looking for info about VDPAU. I'll try and right a summary post to start a new thread when I have some time later if someone else doesn't do it first. Our threadjack has got to stop because it's having a negative impact on peoples perception of how well VDPAU can play 1080P material.
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Interesting... Yea, I see the same thing. But im not sure what this means really.... This could simply be because of ____ problem it cant keep up with 60hz (it cant maintain the framerate either, hence all the dropped frames). But I'm not really sure. I cant try right now, but what if you did something like knock the CPU down to 1ghz (we know this causes problems) and run it where it would normally work and see if it stays locked at 60hz or not.
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Yea, ive been meaning to do that too. The one issue with moving this to a separate thread, is i was hoping some of the people with similar hardware that have it working (such as motd2k) could describe their setups. Could this be a distro issue?
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Haggy
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I don't think it is a distro issue since i'm experiencing the same behaviour on Arch Linux x86_64, though i did not test this as fully as you guys. I'm running on ASUS M3N78-EM w/GeForce 8300 and a AMD X2 4850e CPU running at least @1800 Mhz due to bandwidth limitation if i go lower. Memory is 2 x 2GB DDR2-800 running in DualChannel mode. However i did see a direct link of core speed and reached fps in xbmc but this might be another issue.
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I am actually glad so many people have the problem. I am also glad there is a way to work around it.
I think with a little experimentation and cooperation we will get this licked - but it would be nice to have someone with more experience reading the thread...
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Haggy
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To clear it up: i do not have modelines in my xorg.conf. nvidia driver is also complaining about incompatible edid mode information coming from the tv (also Sony Bravia, 40E4000 if that matters). Seems like it gets intialized @24Hz although the tv set does not recognize it as 1080/24p as it does eg. on bluray.
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What would be great is if I could figure out how to make my TV (Sony Bravia 52V4100) show me whats the input actually is, IE refresh rate. Anyone know of anything? Figured out how to get into the service menu, but not how to actually use it.
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Well i did not exactly find out what refresh rate my TV is using, but i do see two different OSD hints. One is 1080p for anything 1920x1080 at any refresh rate EXCEPT 'real' 24Hz for which the TV responds with "1080/24p". I can force this mode by setting it in nvidia-settings or using '1920x1080@24Hz' in XBMC.