[mythtv-users] XvMC not working - Nvidia

[Damian Surr]

William Munson wrote:
> Damian Surr wrote:
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>> William Munson wrote:
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>>> Damian Surr wrote:
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>>>> I tried to get XvMC working last night. Playback did seem slightly 
>>>> different when I turned it on (seemed to stutter much more when changing 
>>>> channels on live TV, then smooth out once OSD had gone away. Didn't 
>>>> notice any great improvement though.
>>>>
>>>> I've just seen this in the output of mythfrontend
>>>> 2007-03-23 09:10:48.654 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed
>>>> 2007-03-23 09:10:48.655 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video
>>>> so I guess XvMC isn't working at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> I have a nVidia 5200 card and driver 1.0.9746
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>>>> The 'XvMCConfig' file in /etc/X11 contains:
>>>> libXvMC.so.1
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>>>> I read while trying to sort this last night that this file should 
>>>> possibly contain:
>>>> libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
>>>> buy my memory was that that just gave me a blank screen with live TV so 
>>>> I switched it back.
>>>>
>>>> I'm in the UK and have a Nova-T card.
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>>>> Should there be something in my xorg file about XvMC or something?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Damian
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>>> Lets start out with a bit of background info.. What distro are you 
>>> running? How are you installing your packages? Yum, apt-get or gentoo 
>>> style build everything?
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>> Hi William,
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>> Thanks for replying.
>> I'm using Ubuntu. Installed bits using the Synaptic Package manager 
>> mainly. Some bits using apt-get.
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>> I did read last night that the sources have to be built (if that's the 
>> correct terminology, I've never built a source in my life) to enable 
>> XvMC, but I assumed that the Ubuntu installs were ok. Maybe I was wrong?
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> Save yourself a lot of grief. Install "envy" and let it install the 
> latest nvidia drivers for you. You can find envy at this url.
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> http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
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I actually did that (sorry I didn't mention it, I forgot what it was 
called). I installed the drivers manually following a guide, but got 
nervous that I'd not done it properly because the 3D performance didn't 
seem to be what I would expect (Planet Penguin Racer stutters and I 
wouldn't expect it to on a 5200 even though I've only got a 1Gig Athlon 
processor. Also, the simple 'fade in' of the log in screen in Ubuntu 
seems to stutter. I really didn't expect that). I than did the envy 
install and all seemed to go well. The 3D performance didn't change, but 
I'm fairly confident that the drivers are installed correctly.

Damian
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