[mythtv-users] nVidia and XvMC

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 13:20:38 EST 2005


On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:47, greg at nodecam.com wrote:
> >>Has anyone ever gotten XvMC working on a 64 bit native AMD64 machine?  I
> >>was under the impression that it just didn't work yet.
> >>
> >>Greg
> >
> > That may very well be the case.  If it is, what's the best alternative? 
> > I would guess that the next nVidia release might take care of it, but I'd
> > rather not sit around on my hands until that happens.  And what about the
> > slowness of plain XVideo?  Thanks.
> >
> > Will
>
> I'm afraid I can't be much help - I'm not able to do HD here yet.  Maybe
> your best bet is to go with a 32 bit OS for the time being.  I don't know
> enough about it to know if you can use the 32 bit driver under a 64 bit
> Linux via a compatibility layer.
>
> That, or auto-transcode to a resolution/bitrate that your machine can
> handle.
>
> Sorry I'm not much help.
>
> Greg

no NVIDIA XvMC under 64bit yet, just install a 32bit OS, you shouldn't notice 
much difference in running MythTV.

Steve


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