[mythtv-users] how can I do XvMC?

[Jason Ramey]

IIRC, 1.0.4496 broke the XvMC section. If you want to use it, you will need
to downgrade to 1.0-4363. It should have all the functionality as the most
recent one.

Jason Ramey
webmaster at permutation.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <cwieri39 at calvin.edu>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:52 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] how can I do XvMC?


> I'm trying to get XvMC working on my NVidia card, but I'm having issues
> getting it all working.  I've compiled it in without any problems (with
> the -lXvMCNVIDIA -lXvMC in settings.pro) and the Myth interface works
> fine.  However, as soon as I try to watch recordings / live tv
> mythfrontend segfaults, and I get the error "No xvmc found" on the
> command line.
>
> I've pasted below a few lines from my XFree86.0.log file that shows my
> video card and that the XvMC extensions are being loaded when X
> actually starts, so I'm pretty sure it is enabled and working.
>
> (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] rev
> 162, Mem @ 0xec000000/24, 0xe4000000/26, BIOS @ 0xed000000/17
> <snip>
> (II) Loading extension XVideo
> (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
>
> Basically, I'm wondering if there is anything I can do to debug this and
> get it working.  There seems to be very little documentation on the
> subject.  Are there certain /dev entries that need to be there that may
> not be?  Do I need to load the Nvidia kernel module with any special
> options?  Is Gentoo's devfs messing it up?
>
> Some more specs for my system:  Gentoo 1.4, Myth 0.12 compiled from
> scratch (not ebuilt), GeForce4 MX 440 AGP8x running 1.0.4496 module.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Chris Wieringa
> cwieri39 at calvin.edu
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