[mythtv] dlopen of xvmc library (please read if you use Via XvMC)

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 13 September 2004 03:51 pm, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
> I've made a patch that uses dlopen to find the vendor xvmc library at
> runtime. But I need someone with Via Unichrome to adapt it to that
> library. In this patch a Unichrome user would still need to recompile,
> which isn't so nice. But I'm sure someone with that library could fix
> xvmcvldvideo.c and xvmc_render.h so that recomplilation would not be
> needed. I've already made most the changes needed in libmythtv for
> dlopen to work with the Unichrome XvMC. Some functions may need to be
> added to loadVendorXvMC (I've added XvMCPutSlice2 as an example.)
>
> This is tested with the nVidia library. The code also loads the Intel
> i810 library or the Via Unichrome library at startup if it finds them.
>
> The order of loading is 'via' 'nvidia' 'i810' and it stops once it finds
> one, so if you were using nvidia XvMC on a machine with the Unichrome
> drivers this patch will break your setup.

I think the guy doing the unichrome driver is also doing a xvmc wrapper 
library, that should take care of all this - be a bit cleaner than your 
method, too, I think, as it'd all be external to Myth..  

Isaac