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William Munson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Damian Surr wrote:
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<pre wrap="">William Munson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Damian Surr wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I tried to get XvMC working last night. Playback did seem slightly
different when I turned it on (seemed to stutter much more when changing
channels on live TV, then smooth out once OSD had gone away. Didn't
notice any great improvement though.
I've just seen this in the output of mythfrontend
2007-03-23 09:10:48.654 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed
2007-03-23 09:10:48.655 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video
so I guess XvMC isn't working at the moment.
I have a nVidia 5200 card and driver 1.0.9746
The 'XvMCConfig' file in /etc/X11 contains:
libXvMC.so.1
I read while trying to sort this last night that this file should
possibly contain:
libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
buy my memory was that that just gave me a blank screen with live TV so
I switched it back.
I'm in the UK and have a Nova-T card.
Should there be something in my xorg file about XvMC or something?
Cheers
Damian
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<pre wrap="">Lets start out with a bit of background info.. What distro are you
running? How are you installing your packages? Yum, apt-get or gentoo
style build everything?
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<pre wrap="">Hi William,
Thanks for replying.
I'm using Ubuntu. Installed bits using the Synaptic Package manager
mainly. Some bits using apt-get.
I did read last night that the sources have to be built (if that's the
correct terminology, I've never built a source in my life) to enable
XvMC, but I assumed that the Ubuntu installs were ok. Maybe I was wrong?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Save yourself a lot of grief. Install "envy" and let it install the
latest nvidia drivers for you. You can find envy at this url.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html">http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html</a>
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I actually did that (sorry I didn't mention it, I forgot what it was
called). I installed the drivers manually following a guide, but got
nervous that I'd not done it properly because the 3D performance didn't
seem to be what I would expect (Planet Penguin Racer stutters and I
wouldn't expect it to on a 5200 even though I've only got a 1Gig Athlon
processor. Also, the simple 'fade in' of the log in screen in Ubuntu
seems to stutter. I really didn't expect that). I than did the envy
install and all seemed to go well. The 3D performance didn't change,
but I'm fairly confident that the drivers are installed correctly.<br>
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Damian
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