[mythtv-users] MythTV does not access hardware decoding (VIA XvMC)? But Xine does!

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Thursday 31 Mar 2005 20:05, Raimund Moedlhammer wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am heading to install a TV and PVR  on a VIA Epia ME6000 and
> using onboard hardware acceleration (CLE 266). I use a DVB-T capture
> card (TechniSat AirStar 2TV).
>
> I installed Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.10-1.8_FC2.
>
> I applied the kernel-via-drm from Terry Barnaby´s site
> (http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/fc2/)
>
> and most of the new xorg-x11 rpms from here:
> http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC2/RPMS/
>
> I have installed
> xine-lib-1.0.0-999.1.beam.rc7.fc2.i386.rpm
> from
> http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/
> (after I have solved the dependencies).
>
> Now Xine is able to play DVD very well and using hw acc.
>
> But I still struggle with MythTV 0.17.  The CPU usage is very high
> (mythfrontend ~50%, total ~92%) and I get a very choppy life stream when
> watching TV.
>
> I have compiled it with XvMC support, enabled XvMC_VLD support in
> "settings.pro" (and NOT nvidia-XvMC)
>
> In mythfrontend´s settings I can select
>
> "use hardware XvMC MPEG Decoding"
> and
> "Use HW XVMC VLC Decoding (Via only)"
>
> I have already tried all sorts of combination (one or the other on, both
> on or none) and there is no difference in performance and log messages.
>
> When I start "live TV" in mythfrontend I get no messages in console that
> XvMC is being used.
>
> First I was asking in the Unichrome list
> (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6926603&forum_id=38
>837) but then I was told it is a Myth issue... So find much more details
> (logs, settings, suggestions, results,...) there.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what I did wrong??
>
> Thanks for help
>
> Raimund

Can you "ldd libmythtv-0.17.so"

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