[mythtv-users] gentoo VDPAU ported ebuilds or alternatives?

allan sonofzev at iinet.net.au
Sun Jun 21 04:35:18 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 07:37 +1000, allan wrote:
> Awesome.. 
> 
> Thankyou. I will try and use these. 
> 
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 08:55 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:50 AM,
> > sonofzev at iinet.net.au<sonofzev at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I've had a system running on Gentoo for a while, but in an effort to consolidate
> > > power usage I am moving my backend to my general home
> > > file-server/firewall/router. Let me know if this is a bad idea first....
> > >
> > > I have VDPAU capable cards for my two frontends, but have been waiting patiently
> > > for the 0.22 release of MythTV.
> > >
> > > I am not the most patient person so I was wondering about a few alternatives to
> > > make use of VDPAU on my frontend machines.
> > >
> > > 1. Running Gentoo on my backend with the most current 0.21 ebuild. . Using a
> > > custom ebuild for the patched version (either making my own or using this one
> > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-731657-highlight-vdpau+mythtv.html)
> > >
> > > 2. Running Gentoo on my backend with the most current 0.21 ebuild, but using
> > > mythbuntu (or ubuntu normal) with Jean's patched versions of 0.21.
> > >
> > > 3. Any other alternatives that people might suggest.
> > >
> > > Lastly, I could always keep waiting for 0.22 and for it to make it into portage..
> > > if people think that it is getting close (say within 6 months) as my frontend
> > > systems are powerful enough to do fairly good de-interlacing.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > >
> > 
> > I have the patches in my gentoo overlay.
> > 
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259009
> > 
> > 
> > I am currently using this on my frontend and it works great.
> > 
> > jmd0 ~ # equery l mythtv
> > [ Searching for package 'mythtv' in all categories among: ]
> >  * installed packages
> > [I--] [  ] media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p20549 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] x11-themes/mythtv-themes-0.21_p20507 (0)
> > 
> > jmd0 ~ # equery uses mythtv
> > [ Searching for packages matching mythtv... ]
> > [ Colour Code : set unset ]
> > [ Legend : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf              ]
> > [        : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
> > [ Found these USE variables for media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p20549 ]
> >  U I
> >  + + aac                : Enables support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio
> >  + + alsa               : Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib
> > (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
> >  - - altivec            : Adds support for optimizations for G4 and
> > G5/ppc970 processors
> >  - - autostart          : Uses a custom autostart configuration
> > gleened from expierence with MythTV since it's early versions and
> > discussed with other MythTV maintainers and users. Does not rely on
> > KDE being installed like most methods do.
> >  - - debug              : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts
> > and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
> >  - - directv            : Installs the DirecTV channel changing script
> > so that you can configure MythTV to use it to change the channels on
> > your DirecTV box.
> >  + + dvb                : Adds support for DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)
> >  + + dvd                : Adds support for DVDs
> >  + + fftw               : Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms
> >  + + ieee1394           : Enable FireWire/iLink IEEE1394 support (dv,
> > camera, ...)
> >  - - jack               : Adds support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit
> >  - - lcd                : Tells MythTV that you have an instance of
> > app-misc/lcdproc configured on your machine and it should output
> > information such as current time, show name, episode name, etc to that
> > LCD.
> >  - - lirc               : Adds support for lirc (Linux's Infra-Red
> > Remote Control)
> >  + + mmx                : Adds support for optimizations for Pentium
> > MMX and Athlon class processors
> >  + + opengl             : Adds support for OpenGL (3D graphics)
> >  + + perl               : Adds support/bindings for the Perl language
> >  + + python             : Adds support/bindings for the Python language
> >  + + vdpau              : <unknown>
> >  + + video_cards_nvidia : VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for
> > nvidia video cards
> >  + + xvmc               : Instructs MythTV to use XvMC for it's video
> > output. By default, this will use the generic XvMC wrapper unless a
> > specific video card driver is enabled via their VIDEO_CARDS USE flags.
> > 
> > 
> > Installation instructions for my overlay are in the wiki:
> > 
> > http://wiki.github.com/drescherjm/jmdgentoooverlay
> > 
> > 
> > then install media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p20549 and also any of its plugins.
> > 
> > John


Hi 

I've added your overlay but I still don't get the listing for that
version when I do an emerge -pv mythtv.. I have enabled the ~amd64
keyword or is this masked by **? 



Regards

allan





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