[mythtv] MythTV won't run with VIA CX700M2 chipset

[Xavier Hervy]

Oliver Maunder wrote:
> Hi Florin
>
> On Jan 24, 2008 2:21 AM, florin baiduc <florinbaiduc at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The same question from my side...
>> Can you play a movie on CX700M2?
>>     
>
> Yes
>
>   
>> Do you have OpenGL accelerated graphics?
>>     
>
> Yes - but don't count on the performance being that great. VIA  claim
> it's good enough to run compiz. Not that you'd want to on a front end.
>   
>> If yes, please post you setup and whatever "hacks" you applied to the code. I am very interested in this topic and it is definitely a -dev topic as it implies quite a lot of changes in various source files.
>>     
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 1and the mythtv 0.2.20 packages from the Ubuntu
> repositories. SVN should work too, but I wanted to work with something
> more stable!
>
> I used the alternate install disc, and installed a command line
> system. Then I installed ubuntu-mythtv-frontend, which installs X too.
>
> I downloaded the VIA driver installation package from
> http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=45&CatID=3220&SubCatID=184
>
> This provides a script you can run which installs the driver and
> updates xorg.conf.
>
> Then I set up the build environment to build mythtv:
>   sudo apt-get install build-essential
>   sudo apt-get build-dep mythtv
>
> Then I got the mythtv source:
>   apt-get source mythtv
>
> I only needed to change two files in the end.
>
> 1) In libs/mythtv/vsync.cpp, comment out the following line in
> VideoSyn::BestMethod (line 95):
>    //TESTVIDEOSYNC(DRMVideoSync);
>
> 2) In libs/mythtv/VideoOutXV.cpp, uncomment line 67:
>   #define USE_ATI_PROPRIETARY_DRIVER_XVIDEO_HACK
>
> Then do the configure/make/make install thing, at it should all work.
>
> That's all from memory, so I might have forgotten something. If you
> get any problems, let me know.
>
>
> Olly
>   
I try to use this board but I struggle to make the acceleration working. I install those driver two day again. But the video is not smooth.
What kind of video did you try ? mpeg2 / mpeg4 ? what resolution ?
Dis you try any other player with success? if so, may you tell the settings ?

I am going to try mythtv to then :) but ideally I like to make xine work too.

Xavier

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