[mythtv-users] XvMC wiki page

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Fri Feb 17 04:35:54 UTC 2006


On Thursday 16 February 2006 11:05 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:14 -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 9:58 pm, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > > On 2/17/06, James Dastrup <jc at dastrup.com> wrote:
> > > I'm running Myth 0.19
> > > The card is a nVidia 6500
> > > I have OSD in B&W with and without the steps described on the wiki.
> > Sorry to hear that.
> > I wonder if the full color hack only works with certain hardware, or 
> > if you've got a setting wrong somewhere?
> 
> The ChromaKey OSD is only supported on cards that support chroma keying.
> 
> The nvidia 6 and 7 series cards are lacking that feature and the
> color&contrast adjust features the GeForce 4 & 5 series cards had.

Thanks Daniel! Added your comments to the wiki page:
    http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#Greyscale_OSD

BTW, I hope you're not offended by the repeated use of the word "hack".
I think I started calling it that because it has to be enabled via
a MySQL command. The fact that it applies to just a subset of the
nvidia cards reinforces that mentality, but I'll be happy to change 
the wording if it bothers anyone.

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net


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