[mythtv-users] OT: nVidia and XvMC?

Mark Linford mlinford+mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 12:52:47 UTC 2005


On 10/11/05, Tj <htpc at treblid.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Mark Linford wrote:
>
> >So, for anyone with an nVidia card using XvMC, did you have to do
> >anything special to get it running? Any advice to point me in the
> >right direction would be appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> >
> What XvMC libs are you using with MythTV?
>
> Is it libXvMCNVIDIA or libXvMCW?
>
> Most likely it wouldn't work if you compile MythTV with other XvMC
> libraries like via etc (at least it didn't work for me).. If you build
> your own binaries, make sure configure returns the correct XvMC libs,
> either one above should be fine.

You know, I'm not sure. I'm using the mythtv-suite from atrpms, which
I thought used libXvMCW, but I'm having trouble finding any
confirmation of that


>
> If you use libXvMCW, check that you have a file /etc/X11/XvMCConfig and
> the contents is just "libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1" without the quotes. If
> it doesn't exist, create it and libXvMCW should work fine now..
>
Yep, I have that exact XvMCConfig file, with no luck ...

Mark


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