[mythtv] MythTV 0.26, XVideo, and OpenGL

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Wed Apr 11 12:27:23 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 20:41 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> Now that 0.25 has been released (congratulations and
> thanks to all the developers for their work), a question
> about the 0.26 feature list, and specifically OpenGL
> plans and the removal of XVideo.
> 
> As originally announced at:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/news/144/XvMC%20and%20libmpeg2%20to%20be%20dropped%20in%200.25
> 
> there is a long term plan to move to OpenGL and
> remove XVideo support.  Where does this plan stand
> for the 0.26 time frame?

Not in 0.26. I did some testing and the OpenGL video
renderers are just too demanding to run acceptably
on graphics cards released just last year.

I do plan to simplify the XVideo renderer so it is
easier to maintain going forward, but that should
impact almost no-one.

-- Daniel



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