[mythtv-users] SVN - compile error - libavcodec

[Bill Williamson]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 December 2008 16:32:46 Bill Williamson wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 7:09 AM, A JM <vbtalent at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks for all the help and tips.
> > >
> > > I finally gave up and installed fixes instead without issue on the
> > > compile and install but am seeing some slow menus and some other
> oddities
> > > I guess I need to try and track down.
> >
> > Slow menus is usually an opengl issue.
> > Either:
> > -you're running compiz/etc, which is taking over opengl and making myth
> > slow or
> > -you don't have the proper drivers for GL set up, and so it's running via
> > MESA (eg software mode)
>
> Recent distros (like Ubuntu 8.10) seem to enable compiz by default. I think
> this is a bad idea, but a lot fo folks seem to like the eye candy.
>

To be fair, it's stable and doesn't interfere with 99% of applications.  It
even runs quickly (to my surprise) on my 6 year old 2100mhz amd laptop with
16meg ATI shared memory graphics...

It just needs to know how to disable itself when a full screen opengl app
runs.
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