[mythtv-users] Why is my trunk build trying to use VDPAU?

[Matt Emmott]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/3/15 Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com>:
> > My machine is a Pentium Dual core with a GeForce 7300LE card. X blew up
> so I
> > updated the Nvidia drivers to version 180.29. I had to jump through hoops
> to
> > get Myth working but when I did it retained all my settings, recordings
> etc.
> > However, whenever I try to watch tv or recorded programs on my master
> FE/BE
> > I get a segmentation fault. I upgraded my standalone FE to trunk with the
> > same methods as this one and it can play recordings and live tv without
> > issue (It's an older GeForce, 5200 I believe).
> >
> > Mythfrontend -v all gives me this tidbit when it crashes:
> > 2009-03-14 15:44:35.139 VDPAU Error: Error at util-vdpau.cpp:157 (#1,
> > Unknown)
> > 2009-03-14 15:44:35.139 VDPAU Error: Failed to create VDP Device.
> >
> > And I found these errors in dmesg:
> > 2009-03-14 15:44:35.139 VDPAU Error: Error at util-vdpau.cpp:157 (#1,
> > Unknown)
> > 2009-03-14 15:44:35.139 VDPAU Error: Failed to create VDP Device.
>
> This should be fixed in http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/20212
>
> Thanks for reporting the problem.
>
> regards
>
> Mark
>

Very cool, thanks for fixing it! Now to figure out how to import the
change...
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