[mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playback quality poll

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Jun 17 10:19:45 EDT 2004


On Thursday 17 June 2004 09:55, Alexander Petkov wrote:
> >Standard generic BT878 capture catrd ( STB )
> >Althlon 2800 XP+ ( software encoding )
> >Nvidia Geforce4 MX for TV out
> >XvMC hardware deocding via NVidia.
>
> I thought the XvMC is only for MPEG2 streams.

That's correct.  If you're encoding in software, then your playback is 
not using XvMC.  It could still be useful for MythVideo playback of 
MPEG-2 content using the Internal player.

If your OSD during playback is in color, then it's not using XvMC.

-JAC


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