[mythtv-users] Enabling XvMC

[Jake Thompson]

On 11/22/06, Jake Thompson <jake at jakethompson.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/22/06, F Peeters (MythTV) <francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, November 22, 2006 19:12, Jake Thompson wrote:
> > > On 11/22/06, Tom Lichti < tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > >  Ok, so I just tested XvMC(which I thought was working) to see what
> > the
> > > deal
> > > is.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have FC6 ATRPMS Myth on a x86_64 machine and an NVidia 7300GS.  I
> > > enabled
> > > xvmc(I think) in /etc/X11/XvMConfig and enable it for playback..
> > >
> > > However I just did some test, with Standard XvMC set for playback my
> > > machine
> > > is running at 40% CPU, using "Standard" of "libmpeg2" I see about 20%
> > CPU.
> > > So obviously something is wrong with XvMC.
> > >
> > > When I have a VIA card, you could see X loading the XvMC library in
> > the
> > > log,
> > > I do not see anything about it for NVidia, is there some way I can
> > tell if
> > > it is being loaded corectly?
> >
> >
> > I assume you are using the Nvidia binary drivers...
> >
> > If so, the XvMCConfig (note the double 'C' in there!) should contain:
> > libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
>
>
> Yeah, that was just fat fingered, the is what I have, I am using the lates
> BETA drivers, version 9742, but I have not tried the 8x drivers for this
> setup yet though.
>
> -Jake
>
>
>

I guess what my major question is, is, what can I check to confirm that XvMC
loaded successfuly when X started up, since I am not sseing anything in the
log.  Or should I see something in the log about XvMC?

-Jake
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