[mythtv-users] XvMC not loaded

[Francesco Peeters]

Allan Wilson schreef:
> On 5/20/06, *Allan Wilson* <allanwilson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:allanwilson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 5/20/06, *Allan Wilson* <allanwilson at gmail.com
>     <mailto:allanwilson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         I am not sure what I have done wrong but Standard XvMC is not
>         available in my Playback Settings section. When I ran
>          mythfrontend  -v important,general,playback
>         I saw the following error message
>         Couldn't find package XvMC
>         I did compile in xvmc support with Myth and when I look at the
>         setup I have it in there:
>         sh-3.00$ mythbackend --version
>         Library API version: 0.19.20060331-1
>         Source code version: 9716
>         Options compiled in:
>          linux release using_xvmcw using_v4l using_oss using_alsa
>         using_arts using_ivtv using_firewire using_dbox2 using_lirc
>         using_joystick_menu using_x11 using_xv using_xrandr using_xvmc
>         using_xvmc_vld using_frontend using_backend
>         I have done everything in the wiki for xvmc except to it to use
>         it in the playback settings since I don't have that option and
>         am I am getting choppy audio and video using mythfrontend to
>         playback HD content. If I use mplayer or xine it looks great.
>         Any ideas
> 
>         Allan
> 
> 
>     Update, I updated my version of Myth to SVN version 9953 and I now
>     have the Standard XvMC option in Playback settings but if I select
>     that choice and try to play something back it kills XWindows and I
>     get this error message from mythfrontend:
>     VideoOutputXv Error: XvMC output requested, but is not supported by
>     display.
> 
>     Allan
> 
> 
> Doing more reading it looks like it is trying to tell me that my card 
> does not support that feature but I am using a nVidia GeForce 6600GT 
> 128MB AGP card.
> 
> Allan
> 

I cannot recall all details from previous posts, but you *are* using the 
    NVidia proprietary binaries, right? (8756 is the latest/greatest a.t.m.)
-- 
Francesco