[mythtv-users] how can I do XvMC?

manu eallaud at yahoo.fr
Thu Oct 30 10:26:22 EST 2003


Le 30.10.2003 23:51:45, Brandon Bowman a écrit :
> >>>Then you mean that XvMC in XFree is not efficient enough for myth   
> needs?
> >>>BTW : I am not whining or complaining, just trying to understand  
> what  is going on.
> >>>Bye
> >>>Manu
> 
> The point is is XvMC is implemented in the hardware of the GeForece4  
> 440MX Series of cards, it has nothing to do with the capabilities of  
> XFree86 beyond the fact that the binary drivers that nVidia has  
> chosen to release are for XFree86 and these said drivers allow  
> XFree86 to make use of the XvMC feature of the line of cards and  
> hence why MythTV has support for XvMC.

This means then that the message form XFree about XvMC extension being  
loaded is misleading. BTW I know my Radeon 9200 has support of more  
than Xv (though I have no idea if it could do XvMC). I'll ask a  
question on XFree-devel about this also.
Bye
Manu


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