[mythtv-users] XvMC Problem and Question

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 10, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Mario Limonciello wrote:

>
>> If anyone can confirm that XvMC will not work on an amd64 in 64-bit
>> mode it would be nice, conversely if anyone has it working I'd be
>> interested as well. I'll try and ask nVidia directly, but it seems
>> they make it hard to actually ask a question, I think you have to
>> "register your product" before you can do so, and their
>> "knowledgebase" seems to consist of the (admittedly pretty good)
>> README file :-((
>
> I can confirm.  Nvidia has a known bug opened about this issue.  The
> current workaround is to attempt XvMC over and over (sometimes in
> upwards of 25-50 times), and eventually it works for the current X
> session.   Once X is restarted, the 25-50 attempts need to be  
> repeated.
>
Thanks, always good to know I haven't been doing something stupid  
(well at least in this case).

I think I'll hold off on the "workaround".