[mythtv] MythTV won't run with VIA CX700M2 chipset

Xavier Hervy xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com
Fri Jan 25 16:56:29 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 08:49 +0000, Oliver Maunder wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 10:41 PM, Xavier Hervy <xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> > I try to use this board but I struggle to make the acceleration working. I install those driver two day again. But the video is not smooth.
> > What kind of video did you try ? mpeg2 / mpeg4 ? what resolution ?
> 
> MPEG2 and MPEG4. I'm only using PAL resolution though (720x576).
> 
> It all seems pretty smooth, although I haven't watched anything very
> fast moving yet. Maybe I'll rent the Bourne Ultimatum and try that!
> 
> > Dis you try any other player with success? if so, may you tell the settings ?
> >
> > I am going to try mythtv to then :) but ideally I like to make xine work too.
> 
> I used mplayer, and that seemed OK, even though I hadn't applied the
> VIA patch so the video wasn't accelerated.
> 
> I've been using the MythTV internal player which seems to handle
> everything - including DVDs, so I haven't needed to try mplayer or
> xine.
I tried and I failed, I used the svn version, and I can't find any trace
of #define USE_ATI_PROPRIETARY_DRIVER_XVIDEO_HACK :(
any hint ?
Thank you
xavier

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