Need help with Nvidia 8600gt

[ricemark20]

How do I get my video optimized in Ubuntu 8.10
I have:
AMD 2.1 ghz dual core
2 gigs DDR2 ram
Nvidia 8600gt with 1 gig of ram

When I try and play videos with Boxee or Elisa, everthing locks up.
I want to straighten this out before I consider making this setup into a Myth box.
If it works out, I want to add a Hauppauge hvr1250. Can this take shows off an existing dvr?

[Patrick]

That's a pretty good video card you got there. Do you have the Nvidia closed driver running correctly? From the commandline type 'dmesg|grep nvidia'. What do you get back? What kind of frame rates are you getting with glxgears?

[ricemark20]

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mark@mark-locutus:~$ dmesg|grep nvidia
[   11.832522] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[   12.159975] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 24
[   12.159984] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64

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mark@mark-locutus:~$ glxgears 
26300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5259.979 FPS

[Patrick]

When I try and play videos with Boxee or Elisa, everthing locks up. I want to straighten this out before I consider making this setup into a Myth box.
If it works out, I want to add a Hauppauge hvr1250. Can this take shows off an existing dvr?

Looks like your video card setup is fine. Can you play your videos without issue under mplayer or vlc? If so then it sounds like it's a problem with Boxee and Elisa. I know Elisa uses the gstreamer libraries. Not sure about Boxee. Regarding your final question, it all depends on what existing DVR you're talking about. MythTV stores its recordings under /var/lib/mythtv/recordings. The files are named by the time stamp when it was recorded. Nothing is stopping you from copying that file to another machine/folder and renaming it. I've done that before with no issue. Cable/Satellite company DVRs are usually locked down pretty good but the files might be accessible depending on the system.

[ricemark20]

Looks like your video card setup is fine. Can you play your videos without issue under mplayer or vlc? If so then it sounds like it's a problem with Boxee and Elisa. I know Elisa uses the gstreamer libraries. Not sure about Boxee.

Videos play fine in VLC.