[mythtv-users] Idiotic newby questions about Nvidia, PVR-x50's and mpegs

michael brown spam-me at houston.rr.com
Mon Dec 29 21:54:14 EST 2003


J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>> michael brown wrote:
>>
>>> 1)  Can I get hardware decoding of mpeg by my video card to work?
>>>
>>>
>> Turn on the xvmc support in the settings.pro for MythTV.  It was once
>> buggy, from what I understand, but there were some recent changes
>> checked in that were supposed to make it more stable.  I've not
>> tried it yet so I can't say one way or another.

Ok, I found this in my XF86 log file, a good sign I hope?

(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation

Does this mean it should be present since there are no error messages
following?

I use Gentoo, so I added nvidia to the USE variable and am now
re-emerging mythtv.  I looked at the settings.pro file in the Gentoo
"sand box" area and it looks like the XVMC is enabled.  I noticed that
native LIRC support was commented out.  I kinda bootlegged LIRC onto my
Gentoo box, so maybe thats why it's not enable.  At any rate, that's an
insignificant problem right now.  If this frees up significant
processor, I may go with the PVR card and keep my system as is.  I'd
really like an upgrade though.

Thanks for the advice and help.  As for the AMD, I think I'll stick with
the Celeron idea for now if I upgrade.  That leaves an easy path to a
3.0 Ghz HT 800FSB P4 later on.  ;-))))  That's why my price estimate was
kinda high, I was allowing for a good board (like a Gigabyte
8IPE1000-Pro for right at $100.00)

michael brown



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