[mythtv-users] Cannot get XVMC to work?

[Tom Lichti]

Nate Carlson wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Tom Lichti wrote:
>   
>> Make sure your driver is set to "nvidia", not "nv"!
>>     
>
> Yup:
>
> Section "Device"
>          Identifier      "NVIDIA Corporation NV40? [Unknown nVidia Card]"
>          Driver          "nvidia"
> EndSection
>
>   
>> And that Myth has XvMC support compiled in.
>>     
>
> I'm using the Debian packages, which are built with:
>
> --tune=i486 --enable-mmx --enable-xvmc --enable-xvmc-vld --enable-xvmc-pro
>
> ..which I'm assuming should support XVMC?
>
> Thanks for the ideas - anything else?
>   
ldd /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend  | grep -i xvmc

Should output something like:

        libXvMCW.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so.1 (0xb6bf6000)
        libXvMC.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1 (0xb6bf3000)

And verify that the linked file exists.

What does your frontend log say?

Tom