[mythtv-users] XvMC with i810 on slackware 10.2

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 12:22 -0500, Warren wrote:
> leland sindt wrote: 
> > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 20:14 -0600, Leland Sindt wrote:
> >   
> > > / I am trying to use XvMC with the i8xx chipset on Slackware 10.2.
> > >     
> > />/ (**) I810(0): Option "XvMCSurfaces" "7"
> > /You should set this to at least "8" though "16" would be better.
> > MythTV struggles with just 8 surfaces because it uses XvMC for
> > compositing the OSD.
> >   
> That is going to be a problem since the i810 driver can do either 6 or
> 7 surfaces.  No other choices.

It would be possible to modify videoout_xv.cpp to allow 7 surfaces,
but you would have to use the experimental Chromakey OSD.

-- Daniel