[mythtv-users] VIA EPIA XvMC problems upgrading from 0.18 to 0.19

[Robin Gilks]

>
>>For what its worth, I have XvMC and MythTV 0.19 working perfectly fine
>>on my VIA EPIA frontend. I don't have a direct solution for you, but I
>>can give you the specs of my system:
>>
>>VIA EPIA M10000
>>Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.15.1
>>mythtv-0.19
>>Xorg-x11-6.8.99
>>ivtv-0.4.3 (PVR-250 capture card)
>>
>>all have been compiled from scratch using ebuilds, except ivtv which I
>>compiled the old-fashioned way using make ;-)
>>
>>I've even managed to get a colour OSD on screen by following the
>>directions in http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7569 and in
>>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#Greyscale_OSD_.28NVidia_4_.26_5.29
>>This is despite the fact that the wiki indicates that the fix should
>>NOT work for non-Nvidia cards!
>>
>>If anyone wants any more detail on my system/copies of config files,
>>let me know.
>>
>
> I could really do with some help if you are offering!

Nobody has yet mentioned the libxvmcw wrapper library that mythtv, mplayer
and xine use to get access to the xvmc acceleration. I spent a long time
finding that wrinkle!!


Or am I thinking of 3D acceleration...

-- 
Robin Gilks