[mythtv] Re: Different compile options

[Kenneth Aafløy]

On Monday 16 February 2004 14:12, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:42:37PM +0100, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> > On Monday 16 February 2004 11:59, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > Taking this to the development list and top posting as it gets a bit
> > > more general and is not really answering the question.
> > >
> > > I try to enable as much components as possible w/o hurting other
> > > setups. E.g. native alsa and native lirc seem to be OK, directfb
> > > support is causing problems. I don't know if enabling dvb support will
> > > have any impact on non-DVB users. Same for the nvidia libs.
> > >
> > > If the extra compiled in components are detected and used/deactivated
> > > at runtime, this is no problem. So my question is, which current
> > > components of mythtv are safe to be built in, and which not. And also
> > > if the ones that are not safe could be made safe. :)
> >
> > DVB support compiled in should not conflict with other stuff, so it
> > should be safe to add it. The problem with adding either the XvMC or Epia
> > accellerated methods is that they add extra library dependencies, but
> > they could be disabled by default (by modifying avformatdecoder.cpp and
> > globalsetting.cpp lines with UseXVMC and UseViaSlice).
>
> Extra library dependencies, if available from the same source as the
> mythtv bits, are not a problem I believe, a few unused libraries don't
> hurt the usual mythtv sized hard disk.
>
> > If we were to split out these output methods into libs/drivers, that
> > are packaged separatly, the whole problem would go away. I did this
> > to my tree a while back (still have it around here somewhere), but I
> > dunno if this is enough of a reason to do it?
>
> No, that would be overkill, unless the dependencies cluster together
> to a very big size (like xmltv for mythtv-backend).
>
> Are you saying that it is safe to build against nvidia's XvMC (which
> is static BTW)

Yea, that will work, but you will ignore I810 users, dunno how many is using 
it.

> or Epia, even if the user will have neither? 

Sorry about beeing unclear about the epia stuff, it will require the ddmpeg 
library to be present, even without epia output enabled.

Just be sure to patch the files mentioned above, so that X11/Xv will be the 
default, then the user can enable it in mythfrontend/setup/tv 
settings/playback (4th page).

-- 

Kenneth
ke-aa at frisurf.no