[mythtv-users] epia m10000 and xvmc out of the box?

[R. G. Newbury]

Nick Rout wrote:
> I am trying to help out a local beginner (at mythtv, not new to linux).
> 
> He has a epia m10000 with a pvr150. He wants to ensure xvmc is going to work.
> 
> Which out of the box distros with up to date mythtv (ie 0.22-fixes)
> can I introduce him to to make sure all this works smoothly. I see
> many posts about xvmc just not working on this chipset in recent
> distros/kernels.
> 
> Any tips before we waste a few hours/days?

This is the last xorg.conf which I bothered to save prior to moving to 
an HD capable screen, and an HD capable motherboard, so this is standard 
def output to a TV using S-Video. The Via boards require setting, in the 
BIOS for output to a CRT and/or through the TV output (S-video), as well 
as in xorg.conf. The openchrome driver is the default driver for Via 
boards in Fedora and should be available in other distros. It handles 
xvmc quite well. It can actually do HD mpeg decode but only to a 
1024x1024 sized frame with the correct chipset (CLE266 etc). ISTR that 
the M10000 is a little below the SP13000 which I had, but it should do 
standard def tv without straining itself. XvMC configuration is picky 
but well described in the docs at openchrome.org and on the mythtv wiki.
There are some settings caveats but it is doable.

Geoff




Section "ServerLayout"
         Identifier              "Layout0"
         Screen                  0       "ScreenTV" 0 0
         InputDevice             "Mouse0"                "CorePointer"
         InputDevice             "Keyboard0"             "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
         FontPath                "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
         FontPath                "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
         FontPath                "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
         FontPath                "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
         FontPath                "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
         Load                    "record"
         Load                    "extmod"
         Load                    "dbe"
         Load                    "freetype"
         Load                    "type1"
         Load                    "glx"
         Load                    "dri"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
         Option                  "Composite"             "Enable"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier              "Keyboard0"
         Driver                  "kbd"
	Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier              "Mouse0"
         Driver                  "mouse"
         Option                  "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
         Option                  "Device"              "/dev/misc/psaux"
         Option                  "Buttons"               "5"
         Option                  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
         Identifier              "MonitorTV"
         DisplaySize             400 300
         HorizSync 30-67
         VertRefresh 30-75
EndSection

Section "Device"
         Identifier              "CardTV"
         Driver                  "openchrome"
         VendorName              "VIA"
         BoardName               "CLE266/CN400"
         BusID                   "PCI:1:0:0"
         Option                  "ActiveDevice"  "TV,CRT"
         Option                  "TVType"                "NTSC"
         Option                  "TVOutput"              "S-Video"
#       Option                  "EnableAGPDMA"  "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
         Identifier              "ScreenTV"
         Device                  "CardTV"
         Monitor                 "MonitorTV"
         DefaultDepth    24
         SubSection "Display"
                 Viewport        0       0
#               Depth           24
                 Depth           16
#               Modes           "1024x768"
#               Modes           "720x480"
#               Modes           "800x600"
                 Modes           "720x480Under"
#               Modes           "720x480Over"
#               Modes           "720x480Fit"
#               Modes           "640x480"
         EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
         Group                   "video"
         Mode                    0666
EndSection