[mythtv-users] XvMC question

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 01:14 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> Okay, I grabbed yesterday's CVS and rebuilt with XvMC support.  I'm
> pretty sure it's in there, since when I do an 'ldd' on mythfrontend, it
> shows a dependency on libXvMCNVIDIA_blah_blah_blah.so.  This is with
> the -4363 NVidia drivers and a GF4MX.  The thing is, I'm not sure if
> it's working or what I should be seeing.  I don't think the relevant
> code is being run, as I still see a color OSD, and my CPU usage during
> playback doesn't seem to have changed (I wasn't expecting much, but I
> thought the change might at least be noticeable in 'top').
>
> So, right now I'm pursuing 2 possibilities:  either I've mis-configured
> something, or XvMC isn't invoked/doesn't help for RTjpeg playback (all
> my recordings are RTjpeg).
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?

xvmc only works on mpeg2 data.

Isaac