[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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