[mythtv-users] 0.21 Not Viewable on VIA EPIA M10K
Paul Bender
pebender at san.rr.com
Wed Mar 12 14:49:52 UTC 2008
Stephen Robertson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
>> Mache Creeger wrote:
>> > I have tried all the playback options I can think of and either I get
>> > a choppy video experience or I get mythfrontend crashes. Does anyone
>> > have 0.21 playing recorded video on a VIA EPIA M10K and if so, how
>> > did you do it?
>>
>> Not that it is likely to help you in your situation, but I have it
>> working in MiniMyth. It runs as well as MythTV 0.20 on my VIA EPIA SP8000E.
>>
>> MiniMyth builds the openchrome xorg driver before building MythTV. As a
>> result, the MythTV configure script detects the openchrome libchromeXvMC
>> and libchromeXvMCPro libraries and enables XvMC-VLD support.
>>
>> MiniMyth's MythTV 0.20 and trunk are patched so that when xvmc-blit is
>> used and codec does not support xvmc-blit but does support xv-blit,
>> xv-blit is chosen rather than the first in the codec's list (which is
>> often opengl). As a result, MiniMyth is much less likely to fall back to
>> opengl rendering and crash due to the bug in the unichrome Mesa driver.
>
> I've not had a chance to do any investigation yet but I've upgraded my
> M10K from Minimyth 0.20b?? to 0.21b40 and am having the same problems
> with choppy, in fact not really playing at all, video and frontend
> crashes. It had been working perfectly for months. Really not sure
> where to start at all!
You need to set up a renderer that uses XvMC-VLD. You can find it in:
Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback -> Playback Profiles
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