[mythtv-users] How do you speed up screen refreshes in VNC when MythTV (Mythbuntu) is in OpenGL Mode?

nospam312 nospam312 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 18:47:33 UTC 2010


> The problem is that VNC has no hardware acceleration.  You're having to
> render the screen changes in software using the MESA libraries.  When
> opening a frontend over VNC, use the line '-O ThemePainter=qt' to force it
> to to use the Qt painter.

Does anyone know if this should work if you are using UltraVNC viewer
in Windows to connect to a Mythbuntu box?  I have tried adding the
parameter when loading UltraVNC and it is treated as a hostname and it
tries to connect to the host themepainter etc?

TIA


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