[mythtv-users] XvMC

[Kevin Kuphal]

Decent Guy wrote:
> i just recently upgraded from a Radeon 7000 AGP 32MB card (on which I 
> had Myth 0.19 running successfully) to a nVidia 6200 128MB AGP card.   
> Myth is working allright as expected.  Haven't made any major changes 
> except for chaning xorg.conf's driver from radeon to nvidia.
>
> Question is:  how can I take advantage of XvMC capabilities of myth, 
> mplayer, xine, etc?   Do i have to put something in xorg.conf (perhaps 
> options xvmc) ?  how do i know if it's currently already automatically 
> started taking advantage of XvMC or not after upgrading the video card?
>
> More info:  0.19 build is my own build.  mplayer and xine have also 
> been built rather than using rpms.   i'm using FC4.
>
> i know that you can configure mplayer and others to say --enable-xvmc 
> (or something along those lines), but my question is, does anything 
> need to be enabled for the X-server from xorg.conf?
>
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC