[mythtv] Re: unichrome working???

martin north martin at chipsandpeas.com
Sat Jan 22 05:41:31 EST 2005


more info:
the mythfrontend logs show: 

Using XvMC version: 1.0
XvMC found and using VLD surface
2005-01-22 11:10:39.381 Using XV port 56 

so I presume this means everything is ok. So why the high CPU???? 

 

martin north writes: 

> i'm trying to get unichrome working on my Via M6000. I _think_ everything 
> is setup OK, the Xorg.0.log file shows the following on boot up:  
> 
> (II) VIA(0): [XvMC] Initialized XvMC extension.  
> 
> which i believe is the acid test as to whether the drivers are up and 
> running.  
> 
> I've enabled the following in settings.pro  
> 
> # XvMC_VLD support, modify as necessary. Incompatible with normal XvMC 
> support.
> CONFIG += using_xvmc using_xvmc_vld
> DEFINES += USING_XVMC USING_XVMC_VLD
> EXTRA_LIBS += -lviaXvMC -lXvMC  
> 
> .. and enabled the checkboxes on Playback settings.  
> 
> So, OK so far. However a load average of 1.5 when watching live TV says 
> something is not right.. (compared to load average of about 0.4 with the 
> old libddmpeg drivers).  
> 
> What have i missed?? There is no mention of hardware acceleration in the 
> mythbackend logs...should there be?? what should i be looking for?  
> 
> Using: M6000, Gentoo, kernel 2.6.9-epia-patches, xorg 6.8.1.901, Nova-T 
> DVB card.  
> 
 


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