[mythtv-users] Re: libmyth-0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at VLD fails an my Via ...

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:00:42AM +0000, Jules Gosnell wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:55:04PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>On Sunday 20 November 2005 06:53 am, Jules Gosnell wrote:
> >>   
> >>
> >>>last night I found 113 and 114 SRPMs on an archive site somewhere,
> >>>unpacked them, applied patches and then diffed them looking for any
> >>>mention of XvMC - sure enough, I found one :
> >>>
> >>>diff -r 113/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec/parser.c
> >>>114/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec/parser.c
> >>>814c814,818
> >>><     { CODEC_ID_MPEG1VIDEO, CODEC_ID_MPEG2VIDEO },
> >>>
> >>>>     { CODEC_ID_MPEG1VIDEO,
> >>>>       CODEC_ID_MPEG2VIDEO,
> >>>>       CODEC_ID_MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC,
> >>>>       CODEC_ID_MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC_VLD,
> >>>>     },
> >>>
> >>>I unpacked a 115, hacked its patch to undo this change, rebuilt
> >>>overnight, installed and tested this morning - result - SUCCESS :-) !
> >>>     
> >>>
> >
> >Does this imply that building w/o patching resulted in a failure, or
> >did you just try that one build. Perhaps it is unrelated, and only a
> >build w/o a patch will tell.
> > 
> >
> I don't follow...
> 
> 113-5 all apply patches as part of the build. Vanilla 113 works for me, 
> Vanilla 114/115 don't. All I did was to find a XVMC related difference 
> between 113/114 and then remove that difference (from the patch that 
> created it) in 115, creating a variant 115 binary which worked for me.
> 
> I know that the vanilla 115 distro does not work for me.
> I know that my hacked 115 distro (with a couple of lines removed from 
> the svn patch) does work for me.
> 
> I'm assuming that rebuilding a vanilla 115 SRPM would result in a 
> vanilla 115 RPM so did not bother with that build.

The difference is not only in the patches, but also in the
environment. I found out that FC's updates overwrote my libviaxvmc
lib, so the packages had no VLD support indeed.

I assume that if you simply rebuild the 115 sources you'll have
success, too.

> Is that clearer ?
> 
> Jules
> 
> > 
> >
> >>>I have probably not so much fixed a bug as disabled some code that was
> >>>enabled in 114, but it works for me - I now have h/w accelerated MPEG2
> >>>on libmyth-*115* so I am happy.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for the help, Axel.
> >>>
> >>>Should I let someone know about this somehow, or will you feedback to 
> >>>them
> >>>?
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>Looks to be an atrpms problem - this code is how it should be in the 
> >>release-18-fixes branch.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I think so, too. I'm looking into this, but I have no VLD hardware to
> >test with, so I'll be fixing things blindly. Anyway, better than it
> >not working at all, and I can verify that non-VLD stuff is still
> >working.
> > 
> >
> >
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> 

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