[mythtv-users] Trying to get XVMC to work.

[Tom Dexter]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:20 PM, stuart <stuart at xnet.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi...
>
>  I'm running mythtv 21 and can not get XVMC to work.
>
<snip>
>  ...that's it, now the CPU is running the mythfrontend about 92% of the
>  time.  The other 8% are split between the X server and the mythbackend.
>
>  ...thanks for any help
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Make sure that in the playback profile group the max cpus (next to
where you assign XvMC as the decoder) is set to 1.  If it's set to
more than one it will fail...though probably only if you have
hyper-threading or multiple CPUs.

Tom