[mythtv-users] XvMC Problem and Question

[Chad]

On 2/9/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> On Feb 9, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Chad wrote:
>
> > On 2/9/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >> Trying to get XvMC working with 0.18.1
> >>
> >> GeForce FX 5700VE card w/256MB
> >>
> >> vNidia 1.0.7676 drivers installed
> >>
> >> mythTV 0.18.1 with XvMC compiled in (I have the XvMC checkbox checked
> >> in the UI)
> >> (ldd mythfrontend shows the XvMC library dependency, and it is
> >> fulfilled, but possibly incorrectly)
> >>
> >> "load glx" included in X config file, glxinfo shows OpenGL loaded
> >> properly
> >>
> >> Attempt to watch live TV results in "unable to initialize video,
> >> Unable to create XvMC Context, return status: 11 Bad Alloc"

I had this error after I compiled MythTV against an older nvidia-XvMC
lib.  Once I upgraded and recompiled Myth against a newer one, it
began working.  I believe the problem was that the XvMC lib had been
updated and myth was still trying to use the old one, so once I
recompiled myth against the new one (check your configure output to
see what it's buidling against) it worked.

Of course, I'm on a 32 bit CPU.  I too gave up on my 64-bit install of
myth on main mythfrontend, but have XvMC working on it too now (it's
on my desktop though).

HTH

Chad