[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3665: openGL does notconfigure properly when using nvida and XvMCW

Colin Guthrie mythtv at colin.guthr.ie
Tue Jun 26 15:50:59 UTC 2007


Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 10:59 -0400, Mark Buechler wrote:
>> Didn't Daniel purposely make enabling XvMC OpenGL difficult
>> considering all its problems?
> 
> Yep, sorry I didn't pipe up earlier. It is difficult to enable
> in SVN head, easy to enable in the mythtv-vid branch. There are
> Xorg configurations that make XvMC OpenGL inefficient, for
> example the XComposite extension + an OpenGL rendering method
> requires a hefty video card. The mythtv-vid branch makes it
> much easier to chose which rendering method to use so this
> isn't a significant problem there.

Forgive me for not keeping up to date with -vid, but how divergent from
trunk is it and is there a merge in sight?

I don't know how you manage to work on the different branches so
effectively Daniel! I think lesser mortals' heads would explode (mine
included!).

Col.

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