[mythtv-users] Advice for VDPAU and HD-PVR

[Michael Tiller]

So I got an HD-PVR for Christmas.  I also asked for and got an NVIDIA 8400GS
expecting that my system won't be able to play back the recordings very
nicely.

As I see it, I have several choices:

   1. Wait until 0.22 and have both HD-PVR and VDPAU support in that.
   2. Install 0.21-fixes + HD-PVR support as a patch (I assume this is
   available, I saw something about it).
   3. Upgrade to trunk (and the associated instability)

So, #1 is just no fun and since there is no release date, that could take a
very long time.

The issue with #2 is that without VDPAU support, I'm likely only going to be
able to capture at faily low rates for now which is a bit of a downer but
also safer.

With #3, I have the headache of really messing things up.  However, as far
as I can tell it is the only path to getting both HD-PVR and VDPAU support.

So here are some questions...

First, am I missing anything?  For example, if somebody had created some
.deb files for a version of MythTV from the trunk that had just what I
needed and was relatively stable then that would be the simplest for me.
I'm guessing that doesn't exist.

Second, is #2 a viable solution?  I thought I saw a thread (although I can't
find it now?) saying that there was some issue with applying the HD-PVR
patches to the fixes branch.

Finally, if I wanted to go with #3 does anybody have a suggested revision to
build?  What I'm looking for is somebody to say "I run VDPAU and HD-PVR
support from rXXXXX" and it works great, where XXXXX is not the head of the
trunk.  I'm not so eager to be on the bleeding edge so if there is something
relatively stable back up the trunk that gives me what I want then I would
totally go for that.

I subscribed to -commits and -devs so I'm watching that as well.

Thanks for any assistance.

--
Mike
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