[mythtv-users] Re : Is there a way to activate Video Acceleration API for Intel Ironlake (HD Graphics) on MythTV?

[R. G. Newbury]

On 06/23/2010 04:24 PM, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:20 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org
> <mailto:newbury at mandamus.org>> wrote:
>
>     Further down on that page, or the 2.11 announcement page there was a
>     link to a vaapi enabled version of mplayer.
>
>     So you would at least need that.
>
>
> No you would not.  MythTV does not use mplayer, it uses an internal
> player, to which I plan to be adding VAAPI support RealSoonNow (TM).  In
> the context of MythTV, mplayer is not required for anything but (IIRC)
> playback of VCDs.  It may be useful as a stop-gap solution while I work
> on the frontend code, but it is not required.
>
> Just setting things straight.

Whoa Gavin. It does not yet exist in myth. So in the meantime, he would 
need at least a vaapi enabled player...like the mplayer version referred to.

But if you get it working Real Soon Now (TM Jerry Pournele iirc) I'll be 
glad to test it.

Geoff