[mythtv-users] Building another system, hardware questions

[Chad]

On 4/6/06, Wander Winkelhorst <w.winkelhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/6/06, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/5/06, Wander Winkelhorst <w.winkelhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 4/5/06, Warren <warren-lists at icruise.com> wrote:
> > > > Chad wrote:
> > > > > Better late than never, and I'll be adding my experience to a few
> > > > > wiki's around the net, but the skinny:
> > > > >
> > > > > It wasn't cut and dry.  Getting X to work was not the easiest thing to
> > > > > do ( I wanted to go Xorg-7 so that made things a little easier
> > > > > actually).  I was able to get the openchrome via driver working and
> > > > > loaded eventually, and then I could startx.  Then I tackled DRM and
> > > > > getting XvMC to work (which required some editing of files, in
> > > > > particular the drm/linux-core/via_pciids.txt file) and then some
> > > > > recompiling of my applications (including mythtv) to get it working.
> > > > > I also had to use some tweaks to help XvMCWrapper work with my system,
> > > > > but all in all, doing a diskless frontend on not-too-well-documented
> > > > > hardware, this went fairly nice!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > Chad,
> > > >
> > > > Did you post your problems and resulting edits to the OpenChrome group?
> > > > If not, then please consider doing so as it would likely help them out.
> > > >
> > > > W
> > >
> > > Actually it was Ivor Hewit, a developer of the openchrome driver who
> > > suggested doing these edits to Chad.
> > > (I'm subscribed to the openchrome mailing list)
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> > Indeed, and he was very helpful in getting the whole thing sorted.
> >
> > Chad
>
> Somewhat OT:
> Did you get MPlayer or Xine to work with XvMC? If so, how?
>
> I'm stuck with those, MPlayer says:
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode_video
>
> and xine says:
> This is VeXP (VIA Enhanced XINE Player X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3.
> (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
> Segmentation fault
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
> Regards,
> Wander
> _______________________________________________

I haven't even tried.  Once I got Myth working with XvMC, I stopped
using mplayer or xine to see what CPU output was.  I'll give it a go
and see what I come up with.

Chad