[mythtv-users] newbie pcHDTV questions

[Daniel Walton]

After more than a week of fighting with this (I'm new to linux and mythtv) I
think I am finally getting close to getting my pcHDTV card working with mythtv.
I just need a little help to get over the last few bumps :)  I'm on Fedora Core
1 with the 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl kernel.

#1 - Does mythtv need xine-hd or is it just a cool app to have installed to play
with?  I have it installed but I can't get it to play an mpg file or tune to a
channel.  I always get a "main: all available video drivers failed" message and
haven't been able to figure out/google why.  I know my card is ok because I can
do a "getatsc /dev/dtv" and capture a channel ok.  Here are two examples of
xine-hd dying as soon as I start it?

[mythtv at localhost ~]# xine -V XvMC -c 5.1 dtv://
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.20
(c) 2000-2003 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team.
Built with xine library 1.0.0 (1-beta10)
Found xine library version: 1.0.0 (1-beta10).
XServer Vendor: The XFree86 Project, Inc. Release: 40300000,
        Protocol Version: 11, Revision: 0,
        Available Screen(s): 1, using 0
        Depth: 24.
        XShmQueryVersion: 1.1.
-[ xiTK version 0.10.2 ]-
-[ xiTK will use XShm ]-
-[ WM type: (EWMH) KWIN {KWin} ]-
Display is not using Xinerama.
Benchmarking memcpy methods (smaller is better):
        glibc memcpy() : 563907566
        linux kernel memcpy() : 567192941
        MMX optimized memcpy() : 533819537
        MMXEXT optimized memcpy() : 262193385
        SSE optimized memcpy() : 262323020
main: all available video drivers failed.
[mythtv at localhost ~]#

[mythtv at localhost plugins]$ xine -V XvMC ~/foo.mpg
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.20
(c) 2000-2003 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team.
Built with xine library 1.0.0 (1-beta10)
Found xine library version: 1.0.0 (1-beta10).
XServer Vendor: The XFree86 Project, Inc. Release: 40300000,
        Protocol Version: 11, Revision: 0,
        Available Screen(s): 1, using 0
        Depth: 24.
        XShmQueryVersion: 1.1.
-[ xiTK version 0.10.2 ]-
-[ xiTK will use XShm ]-
-[ WM type: (EWMH) KWIN {KWin} ]-
Display is not using Xinerama.
main: all available video drivers failed.
[mythtv at localhost plugins]$


#2 - I have the latest CVS (last night) and I'm trying to compile it with XvMC
support but it can't find the XvMCNVIDIA library.  The compilers spews forth

thavformat-0.15 -lfreetype -lmp3lame -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXinerama -lXv -lX11
-lXext -lXxf86vm -lXvMCNVIDIA -lXvMC -lXv -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11 -lm -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXvMCNVIDIA
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libmythtv-0.15.so.0.15.0] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/cvs/mythtv/libs/libmythtv'
make[1]: *** [sub-libmythtv] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/cvs/mythtv/libs'
make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2
[mythtv at localhost mythtv]$


but I have that library

[mythtv at localhost /]# find / -name '*XvMCNVI*' -print
/usr/X11R6/lib/nvidia-graphics-1.0-5336/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.5336
/usr/X11R6/lib/nvidia-graphics-1.0-4363/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/nvidia-graphics-1.0-4363/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.4363
[mythtv at localhost /]#

[mythtv at localhost /]# cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/lib/mysql
/usr/lib/nvidia-graphics-1.0-4363
/usr/lib/sane
/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/xine
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib/nvidia-graphics-1.0-4363
[mythtv at localhost /]#

Is the compiler looking for libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.4363 or
libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 or something else?

I installed 4363 nvidia drivers per Jarod's doc but it looks like something
didn't take correctly.

Let me know if you need any more info, I'm kinda stuck at this point.

Thanks
Daniel