[mythtv-users] BBC HD (1080) h.264 / AVC playback

[David Brodbeck]

Steven Adeff wrote:
>> And besides, I was under the impression that if a precompiled version
>> wasn't found on NVidia's FTP site (By the installer), it automatically
>> built one *for your kernel*. That certainly seems to be my experience
>> with NVidia's "Binary Driver".
>>     
>
> That it does (I have to do it for my kernels), though I don't know
> enough about that stuff to know what difference, if any that makes to
> the binary nature of the rest of the driver.
>   

It compiles a "kernel interface," so my guess is this is just the part
with the hooks that interface with the kernel.  The rest is probably
still a binary blob.