[mythtv-users] XvMC with i810 on slackware 10.2

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Thu Mar 30 17:38:51 UTC 2006


Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> 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.
>   

That certainly explains why I've never heard of anyone running XvMC in 
Myth on an i810. :)

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