[mythtv-users] Cards with Linux Support for XVMC Hardware Acceleration

[William Munson]

Craig Whitmore wrote:
> Hi there.
>  
> Does anyone know of any cards which have hardware (under linux xvmc) 
> h264 support. Seems NVIDIA XVMC on Linux doesn't have support for H264 
> for some reason so I have to use software to watch HD stuff in NZ 
> (which is H264) (well all channels even SD under DVB-T are)
>  
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.059 Error: XvMC-IDCT H.264 not supported by ffmpeg
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.060 Error: XvMC-IDCT H.264 not supported by ffmpeg
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.063 Error: XvMC-IDCT H.264 not supported by ffmpeg
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.065 VideoOutputXv: XvMC Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video 
> Texture'
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.065 VideoOutputXv Error: Unable to create XvMC 
> Context, status(11): BadAlloc
> ..
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.065 VideoOutputXv Error: Failed to create XvMC 
> Buffers.
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.065 VideoOutputXv: Falling back to X11 video 
> output over a network socket.
>                               *** May be very slow ***
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.065 VideoOutputXv Error: XCreateImage failed: 
> XJ_disp(0x83c5c68) visual(0x898ce80)
>                         XJ_depth(24) WxH(1920x1080) bpl(5760)
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.065 VideoOutputXv Error: Failed to create X buffers.
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.066 Error: XvMC-IDCT H.264 not supported by ffmpeg
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.067 VideoOutputXv: XvMC Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video 
> Texture'
> 2008-02-20 21:33:10.068 VideoOutputXv Error: Unable to create XvMC 
> Context, status(11): BadAlloc
> ..etc
>  
> Thanks
>  
>

Hmmm.... maybe a bad setup. I do not have this issue with a FX5200 agp card.