[mythtv] XVMC in latest CVS

Chris White cbw at cs.hmc.edu
Sat Apr 30 04:38:14 UTC 2005


>>Here's the relevant playback log:
>>2005-04-29 17:55:26.055 XvMC surface found with IDCT support on port 145
>>Direct Rendering is not avilable on this system!
>>2005-04-29 17:55:26.126 Unable to create XvMC Context, status(11): BadAlloc
> 
> This is the relevant bit, Direct Rendering is not available.
> This means two things:
>  1/ I need to test for this in GetBestSupportedCodec(), which will make
>     the failure less "Spectacular".
>  2/ We need to find out why direct rendering is not working for you.
>     What is your display variable set to? The command: echo \"$DISPLAY\"
>     should display something like: ":0" or ":1" or ":0.2", etc
> 
> -- Daniel
> 

Ok, DISPLAY is :0. Just as a data point, before this I was running the
0.17 build out of Knoppmyth and XvMC did work, albeit with problems.

-Chris


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