[mythtv-users] XvMC not loaded

[Allan Wilson]

On 5/21/06, Francesco Peeters <francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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I think I have the latest, this is from my xorg.0.log file:
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
        compiled for 4.0.2, module version         Module class: X.Org Video Driver

Allan
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