[mythtv-users] XvMC

[ian at duckland.org]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Lonny Selinger wrote:

> > Well, more specifically, only for certain Nvidia cards *with* Nvidia's
> > closed-source drivers.  Other vendors' cards may support XvMC in
> > hardware, but without driver support in Linux, you can't use it.
> 
> Can anyone explain what teh benefits would be (other then having a nice grey
> scale OSD instead of the colour one)  ;)  ... I had it compiled in at one
> point but wasn't fond of the results it had on the OSD, took it out and
> everything went back to normal.
> 
> Are there any serious gains to be had by compiling it in?

Sure!  You also lose the ability to do PIP!  Since I use a PVR-250 and a 
M179 as my first 2 tuners, and using their internal tuners, having PIP is 
pretty sweet.  XvMC isn't worth it for me, especially since I'm not seeing 
much of a performance gain... maybe I'd think differently if I had a HDTV 
card... ;)

	-I