[mythtv-users] N220GT nVidia Drivers

[Raymond Wagner]

On 10/12/2010 20:37, mike at grounded.net wrote:
>>   If you don't have the nVidia graphics drivers installed and working,
>>   youre not going to get video output on your card.  Without the
>>   proprietary drivers, you won't even have Xv support, and as mentioned
>>   before, that makes attempting video playback in MythTV pointless.
> I'm not talking about TV out if that's what you mean. I simply mean monitor output.

Xv is the standard X11 interface for hardware accelerated video 
playback.  It accepts raw 4:2:0 video, and manages colorspace conversion 
and scaling.  Without it (or something better like VDPAU or OpenGL), any 
video playback through MythTV will be unscaled.  It doesn't matter what 
type of output you are using.