[mythtv-users] EPIA M10K + DVD Play CPU Usage

[Ivor Hewitt]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:11 +0000, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> 
>>Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>
>>>>I tried getting XvMC to run using some .mpg 
>>>>file I had laying around, and it took me a while to discover hardware 
>>>>decoding does not work on all video files given to Xine.
>>>
>>>But it should work on DVD right? I've been pointed out that Divx doesn't
>>>work.
>>>
>>
>>You need to get some logs to figure out what is/isn't working.
>>Yes it will do DVD just fine... and an M10K has plenty of grunt to do a 
>>Divx anyway.
> 
> 
> Okay.. Here are Xorg's Logs (tar.bz2'ed attached.)
> 
> Relevent details are pasted here.
> (II) VIA(0): 3D Engine has been initialized.
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
> (II) VIA(0): [drm] drmAgpEnabled succeeded
> (II) VIA(0): direct rendering enabled
> (II) VIA(0): [XvMC] Initialized XvMC extension.
> 
> I've also attached the log files for running xine --verbose=9 -V xxmc.
> 
> Looking though it, I have no idea if it really is using xxmc/XvMC.
> 
xine -help will show you what video out drivers you have available. It 
looks like your xine isn't compiled with xxmc support.
Please try reconfiguring xine and/or paste a copy of your xine config.log.

> I've also recompiled xine on my laptop and had Xvmc enabled, but I still
> don't see anything that resembles xvmc being used at all.
> 
And does your laptop have xvmc support?

> Please help me, right now, I can't play DVDs because it keep complaining
> of Dropped frames. 
> 
Actually that should be "Please help me. Right now, I can't..." :-)

> BTW : This is a Gentoo system with 2.6.9 kernel + xorg-x11-6.8.2 +
> R30(Unichrome) + 0.13 libxvmc + drm from CVS. 
> 

BTW : Why are 'Gentoo systems' the ones that have all the problems 
compiling and using the drivers? ;-)


Cheers,


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Ivor
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