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

[stuart]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, stuart <stuart at xnet.com 
> <mailto:stuart at xnet.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>      
>     Thanks Kevin...  I know there are a number of errors.  I thought I would
>     go after the "tallest weed" first.  Also, this set up will play back
>     stuttering video using the "slim" profile.  So (my thinking), things
>     should only improve if the mpeg2 decoding is moved from software to
>     hardware.
> 
>     I have gone through the wiki and I'll have another go at it. FYI, my
>     mythtv box is a Debin/Unstable, 3GHz, 1GByte & Nvidia-6000 based system.
> 
>      > 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
> 
>     Ah, didn't see that "sub menu" under edit.  I checked and all are set to
>     using only 1 CPU.
> 
>      > Did you config the XvMCConfig file?
>      >
>      > [myth at mythtv ~]$ cat /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
>      > libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
>      > [myth at mythtv ~]$
>      >
>      >
>      > Mitchell
> 
>     Yes, I have actually tried all these:
> 
>     ==> /etc/X11/XvMCConfig <==
>     libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
> 
>     ==> /etc/X11/XvMCConfig.20080219 <==
>     libXvMC.so.1
> 
>     ==> /etc/X11/XvMCConfig.20080417 <==
>     libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1
> 
>     ...thanks everyone, I'll post a follow up if / when something starts
>     working...
> 
>  
> I hate to state the obvious, but have you confirmed which file you have 
> on your system, it's name, and it's location?  The wiki has an example 
> of how to find the XvMC library if you used an RPM install but 
> confirming the file you're referencing exists and that you have the 
> right filename should be a first thing.  The xorg.conf would be nice also.
>  
> Kevin
> 
> 


Ok, here's the whole xorg.conf file....

(...please see my other post describing what I did to get HD working for 
my setup...)
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