[mythtv-users] XvMC for an EPIA Box (Playing DVDs on a Mini-ITX)?

Matt Jordan thehappyfunball at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 01:14:38 UTC 2006


I have MythTV running on a Mini-ITX (EPIA) box and DVD performance is
extremely bad.

First off:

The system is EPIA CL-10000 board with the CLE266 graphics chipset. I
am running Ubuntu (Breezy) and I have recompiled the kernel to enable
Unichrome support and X indicates that direct rendering is enabled.

Although TV plays back perfectly (at least at 640x480), trying to play
a DVD pushes the CPU to 100% usage and the video is horribly garbled. 
I am to understand that I need to use XvMC to enable the native MPEG-2
decoding hardware that this board is equipped with.  The problem is
that I don't know how.

What should I do to compile or add in the support for XvMC?  Does
anyone have a Debian package of MPlayer or Xine with it integrated?

Thanks!


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