[mythtv-users] High CPU with XvMC and nvidia?

Marco Nelissen marcone at xs4all.nl
Sat Mar 11 17:43:00 UTC 2006


>Tom Lichti wrote:
>> Tom Lichti wrote:
>>> I have finally gotten XvMC working on my new frontend. Well, seemingly 
>>> working. All indications are that XvMC is loaded and working, but my CPU 
>>> usage is actually HIGHER than when I was using straight ffmpeg/libmpeg2 
>>> with no hardware acceleration. Here is my setup:
>
>
>I had the same problem.  The secret for me was setting up the XvMCConfig file. 
>Search this list, there is a lot of info on it.  I placed mine in /etc/X11 and 
>made a symlink of /etc/X11/XvMCConfig to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XvMCConfig.

Thanks! That made XvMC worth using on my machine too. Are there any other
"secrets" like this one should know about?

Marco


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