[mythtv-users] how can I do XvMC?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Oct 30 19:12:22 EST 2003


On Thursday 30 October 2003 06:04 pm, Jason Schloer wrote:
> Okay, I'm going to stick my neck out there and pretend like I know
> something when I probably don't. As far as I understand it, XvMC isn't
> specifically an Nvidia GeForce thing. Off the top of my head supposedly
> the i810 graphics chip supports it. The XvMC features are for Motion
> Compensation and have been a part of XFree86 since at least 4.2.0.

Ah, correct information for once =)  It's supported in a couple other drivers 
as well, IIRC.  Doesn't hurt to try, just have to substitute the appropriate 
libs on the linking line instead of libXvMCNVIDIA.

Isaac


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