[mythtv-users] XvMC Problem and Question
Mario Limonciello
mario.mailing at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 22:27:49 UTC 2006
> If anyone can confirm that XvMC will not work on an amd64 in 64-bit
> mode it would be nice, conversely if anyone has it working I'd be
> interested as well. I'll try and ask nVidia directly, but it seems
> they make it hard to actually ask a question, I think you have to
> "register your product" before you can do so, and their
> "knowledgebase" seems to consist of the (admittedly pretty good)
> README file :-((
I can confirm. Nvidia has a known bug opened about this issue. The
current workaround is to attempt XvMC over and over (sometimes in
upwards of 25-50 times), and eventually it works for the current X
session. Once X is restarted, the 25-50 attempts need to be repeated.
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