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

[Axel Thimm]

Can you please test 116? Thanks!

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:22:25AM +0000, Jules Gosnell wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> >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.
> > 
> >
> Well, much to my chagrin, Axel, you are right :-)
> 
> I rebuilt the 115 SRPM last night and it works fine.
> 
> I think it probably comes down to the fact that the xorg that I am 
> running includes a unichrome backend along with the relevant C header 
> files, which eclipse those in the xvmc package. I guess these were 
> similar enough for 113 to work without a rebuild, but by 114/115 libmyth 
> needs rebuilding in my environment to work properly...
> 
> Anyway, a successful resolution - apologies for all the wasted bandwidth ...
> 
> Jules
> 
> > 
> >
> >>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.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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