[mythtv-users] VIA EPIA XvMC problems upgrading from 0.18 to 0.19

M martin at luminoussheep.net
Wed Mar 8 17:40:27 UTC 2006


>
>>
>>>For what its worth, I have XvMC and MythTV 0.19 working perfectly fine
>>>on my VIA EPIA frontend. I don't have a direct solution for you, but I
>>>can give you the specs of my system:
>>>
>>>VIA EPIA M10000
>>>Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.15.1
>>>mythtv-0.19
>>>Xorg-x11-6.8.99
>>>ivtv-0.4.3 (PVR-250 capture card)
>>>
>>>all have been compiled from scratch using ebuilds, except ivtv which I
>>>compiled the old-fashioned way using make ;-)
>>>
>>>I've even managed to get a colour OSD on screen by following the
>>>directions in http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7569 and in
>>>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#Greyscale_OSD_.28NVidia_4_.26_5.29
>>>This is despite the fact that the wiki indicates that the fix should
>>>NOT work for non-Nvidia cards!
>>>
>>>If anyone wants any more detail on my system/copies of config files,
>>>let me know.
>>>
>>
>> I could really do with some help if you are offering!
>
> Nobody has yet mentioned the libxvmcw wrapper library that mythtv, mplayer
> and xine use to get access to the xvmc acceleration. I spent a long time
> finding that wrinkle!!

It's a good point but why would that break on an upgrade of myth packages?

> Or am I thinking of 3D acceleration...

No that's the one for video.

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M



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