[mythtv-users] XVMC for VIA Broken on 0.21

[Paul Bender]

Mache Creeger wrote:
> I loaded up the 0.21 rpms on Fedora 7, 2.6.23.15-80.fc7, on an M10K 
> with 1GB of memory and xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.901-2.fc7
> 
> I reset playback for XVMC on VIA and it will not play recorded 
> programs. Looking that the mythfrontend log I noticed.
> 
> 	AFD Error: Could not find decoder for codec (MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC_VLD), ignoring.
> 
> Followed by:
> 
> 	VideoOutputXv: XvMC Adaptor Name: 'XV_SWOV' Unable to create XvMC Surface.
> 
> And then a continual number of:
> 
> 	NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> 
> There has been discussion about this problem here
> 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/318327
> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2007-September/057233.html
> http://readlist.com/lists/mythtv.org/mythtv-users/2/10667.html
> 
> Can someone tell me how to do a work around?

Short of either rebuilding the RPMs on a machine that has the openchrome 
drivers installed or patching the MythTV configuration script, I do not 
know of any workaround.