[mythtv-users] XvMC not loaded

[Allan Wilson]

On 5/21/06, Allan Wilson <allanwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/21/06, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/21/06, Allan Wilson <allanwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 5/21/06, Francesco Peeters <francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
> > > > Allan Wilson schreef:
> > > > > On 5/20/06, *Allan Wilson* <allanwilson at gmail.com
> > > > > <mailto:allanwilson at gmail.com >> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >     On 5/20/06, *Allan Wilson* <allanwilson at gmail.com
> > > > >     <mailto: allanwilson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >         I am not sure what I have done wrong but Standard XvMC is
> > not
> > > > >         available in my Playback Settings section. When I ran
> > > > >          mythfrontend  -v important,general,playback
> > > > >         I saw the following error message
> > > > >         Couldn't find package XvMC
> > > > >         I did compile in xvmc support with Myth and when I look at
> > the
> > > > >         setup I have it in there:
> > > > >         sh-3.00$ mythbackend --version
> > > > >         Library API version: 0.19.20060331-1
> > > > >         Source code version: 9716
> > > > >         Options compiled in:
> > > > >          linux release using_xvmcw using_v4l using_oss using_alsa
> > > > >         using_arts using_ivtv using_firewire using_dbox2
> > using_lirc
> > > > >         using_joystick_menu using_x11 using_xv using_xrandr
> > using_xvmc
> > > > >         using_xvmc_vld using_frontend using_backend
> > > > >         I have done everything in the wiki for xvmc except to it
> > to use
> > > > >         it in the playback settings since I don't have that option
> > and
> > > > >         am I am getting choppy audio and video using mythfrontend
> > to
> > > > >         playback HD content. If I use mplayer or xine it looks
> > great.
> > > > >         Any ideas
> > > > >
> > > > >         Allan
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >     Update, I updated my version of Myth to SVN version 9953 and I
> > now
> > > > >     have the Standard XvMC option in Playback settings but if I
> > select
> > > > >     that choice and try to play something back it kills XWindows
> > and I
> > > > >     get this error message from mythfrontend:
> > > > >     VideoOutputXv Error: XvMC output requested, but is not
> > supported by
> > > > >     display.
> > > > >
> > > > >     Allan
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Doing more reading it looks like it is trying to tell me that my
> > card
> > > > > does not support that feature but I am using a nVidia GeForce
> > 6600GT
> > > > > 128MB AGP card.
> > > > >
> > > > > Allan
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I cannot recall all details from previous posts, but you *are* using
> > the
> > > >     NVidia proprietary binaries, right? (8756 is the latest/greatest
> >
> > > a.t.m.)
> > > > --
> > > > Francesco
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> > > >
> > >
> > > I think I have the latest, this is from my xorg.0.log file:
> > > (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> > > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
> > > (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> > >         compiled for 4.0.2, module version > > >         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> >
> > did you install the xvmc dev library for Xorg?
> >
> > --
> > Steve
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>
> I think you are talking about libxvmc-dev and I do have it loaded although
> it acts like it is not there:
> mythtv at mythtv:~$ sudo apt-get install libxvmc-dev
> Password:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> libxvmc-dev is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 86 not upgraded.
> mythtv at mythtv:~$ locate libxvmc-dev
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libxvmc-dev.md5sums
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libxvmc-dev.list
> /usr/share/doc/libxvmc-dev
> /usr/share/doc/libxvmc-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
>
> Allan
>

I am really trying to get XvMC working to help with playback on HD content
which stutters real bad although plays fine live but what I am thinking now
is that with a 3 GHz processor and a 128MB nVidia video card I should be
able to play back HD without any problems. I wonder if I have video card
driver problems. Any ideas how I could tell if my video card drivers are
working correctly?

Allan
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