[mythtv-users] Re: Hardware ideas

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:40:52AM +1200, Craig Box wrote:
> On this subject, I've read about the XvMC driver lately, but nothing
> concrete about how it works or how to use it.  It's not something I can turn
> on in the X config, I guess it needs to be in the drivers.
> 
> I have a GF4MX and I read that these support 'hardware MPEG decoding'; from
> what I read, XvMC is related to this.
> 
> I'm running FC2, 2.6.5-358-8kstacks from Linuxant, the 5336 drivers from
> Nvidia, and Axel's 0.15.1 MythTV rpms.  Is XvMC worth having, and is it
> enabled in this config,

Yes, it is.

> how would I tell if it was, etc?

Hm, good question. I would look into the specfile/sources, but I
wouldn't know from external inspection of the binaries.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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