[mythtv-users] XvMC on Mac Mini?

Bill Omer bill.omer at gmail.com
Sat Apr 7 14:44:57 UTC 2007


On 4/7/07, Dan Brown <dan at familybrown.org> wrote:
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> I've set up MythTV as a combined frontend/backend (though most of the
> backend work is done on a different machine) on an Intel Mac Mini under
> Ubuntu 6.10.  I notice that video playback (live TV, recordings, or DVD)
> is using 100% of one of my cores, so I tried to enable XvMC.  According
> to the wiki at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC, the i810
> driver supports XvMC.  However, when I launch mythfrontend, the log file
> indicates "XvMC output requested, but is not supported by display".
>
> A web search indicates that XvMC needs to be enabled in xorg.conf, but I
> haven't found any indication of how to do that.  Is there a setting I
> need to enter in xorg.conf, or something else I need to look at?


Are you using the i810 driver or vesa?  I had to compile MythTV from
SVN and forcefully enable xvmc, it was only after that when I was able
to use XvMC on my Intel Mac Mini.

-Bill


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