[mythtv-users] Problems setting up XvMC

[Tom Lichti]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 March 2007 at 11:35:13 -0400, Tom Lichti wrote:
>   
>> On my perfectly working NVidia 6200 based frontend I have the following:
>>
>> - compile flags: --enable-xvmc --enable-opengl-vsync --disable-xvmc-pro
>> --disable-xvmc-vld --disable-xvmcw
>>     
>
> Why the --disables?  Does it work if you don't set them?
>   
I don't recall exactly. It works with them disabled, so I use them.
>   
>> - preferred encoder set the same as you
>>
>> - XvMCConfig contents:
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
>>     
>
> That might stop it from searching in other places (it looks in
> /usr/local somewhere first), so I'll probably set it once things are
> running.  Since it's finding the library, this difference isn't the
> cause of the problem.
>   
Okay, just checking.
>   
>> - /etc/X11/XF86Config needs to have the Device section use the
>> "nvidia" driver, not the "nv" driver.
>>     
>
> Yes, forgot to say that.  That's been done.
>   
Good.
>   
>> There are other things that can be done to optimize XvMC, but that is
>> pretty much the bare minimum.
>>     
>
> Thanks.
>   

No problem. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Tom