[mythtv] MythTV 0.26, XVideo, and OpenGL

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Apr 11 14:09:33 UTC 2012


On 4/11/2012 09:44, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 23:08 +1000, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> On 11 April 2012 22:27, Daniel Kristjansson<danielk at cuymedia.net>  wrote:
>>> 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.
>> What graphic cards have you tried for which OpenGL was too demanding?
>>
>> even the Intel HD3000 has no issue handling OpenGL ; I can't think of
>> a lower spec graphic card.
> NVS 3100M -- http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvs_techspecs.html
>
> It's a lower end laptop chip but it was in a new laptop I bought
> just last year. It was close enough that maybe some optimization
> might make it work, but it wasn't up to the job as is.

That doesn't make much sense, as the NVS 3100M is just an ION2, which 
does fine with the OpenGL video renderer.  Even my considerably lesser 
powered onboard 8200 can handle OpenGL.


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