[mythtv-users] sAGA cONTINUES

[Chris Schumann]

> On 10/12/07, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>> On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:15 AM, chris at idlelion.net wrote:
>>
>>> The combination of 2.53GHz P4 CPU and GeForce 6200 video card
>>> should be
>>> enough to play back HDTV, but it's not quite fast enough.
>>>
>>> I am using the nVidia proprietary driver, and my distribution is
>>> Fedora 7
>>> and the ATRpms MythTV package.
>>>
>>> XvMC seems to be installed and not working, even though 3D is. I've
>>> tried
>>> Standard XvMC and Via XvMC playback, and neither is quite fast
>>> enough, as
>>> well as other tweaks from the mythtv.org wiki on tweaking XvMC.
>> I have a GeForce 6200 as well, in my desktop machine, and I've never
>> gotten XvMC to work either.  I know the drivers are installed
>> correctly because 3D acceleration works.  But when I turn on XvMC,
>> CPU consumption doesn't go down and I still get a color OSD.
>>
>> Has anyone actually gotten XvMC working on this card?
>>
> 
> Did you guys happen to miss the first step to actually enable XvMC for
> the Nvidia drivers?
> 
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#Configuration
> 
> Add your XvMC library module name to the /etc/X11/XvMCConfig file,
> creating a new one if necessary
> 
>    1. For binary Nvidia drivers, the contents of XvMCConfig should be
> "libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1"

I just double-checked and it is present and that file does exist. I 
rebooted to no effect. But I did capture the log while running MythTV 
and found interesting information:

2007-10-12 21:41:55.072 VideoOutputXv: Pixel dimensions: Screen 
1680x1050, window 1680x1050
2007-10-12 21:41:55.086 VideoOutputXv: Estimated display dimensions: 
485x303 mm  Aspect: 1.60066
2007-10-12 21:41:55.086 VideoOutputXv: Estimated window dimensions: 
485x303 mm  Aspect: 1.60066
Xlib:  extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".
2007-10-12 21:41:55.090 VideoOutputXv Error: XVideo output requested, 
but is not supported by display.
2007-10-12 21:41:55.093 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed
2007-10-12 21:41:55.094 VideoOutputXv: Falling back to X shared memory 
video output.
                               *** May be slow ***
and there's this too:
[chris at localhost ~]$ xvinfo
Xlib:  extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0".
xvinfo: No X-Video Extension on :0.0


I feel like it's SO close, and thanks for the help so far. Any other 
places to look or things to try?

Chris