[mythtv-users] NVidia card lacking Xv overlay

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/21/2007 02:27 AM, DaveD wrote:
> What about the brightness/contrast adjustments?  This is something
> that really bugs the hell out of me.  Why should we have to take a
> giant step backward in functionality to upgrade to the latest
> hardware?  There must be some way around this.  I would think that
> Nvidia would provide some sort of wrapper so existing apps that rely
> on the overlay would retain their functionality.  Mplayer, Xine and
> MythTV (the ones I use, I assume there are others) all have this same
> problem.  Anyone have a solution?

AIUI, NVIDIA's recommendation is for applications to start supporting
the new OpenGL-based approach (on which Myth devs, among others, are
working).

Mike