[mythtv-users] Cannot get XVMC to work?

[Tom Lichti]

Francesco Peeters wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 16:47, Nate Carlson said:
>   
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I've got a box (Athlon 3200+) that just croaks when trying to play back
>> HD, so I'm trying to get XVMC working on it.
>>
>> It's got a Geforce 6200 in it, with NVidia's 8178 drivers. I've enabled
>> 'Standard XvMC' as the decoder in my TV Playback Settings, however, when I
>> go to play a MPEG2 file (either HD from my Air2PC or MPEG2 from my
>> PVR500), I still get the color OSD, and HD is still sucking 100% of the
>> CPU, and not working.
>>
>> I'm not seeing anything at all about XvMC in the frontend logs.. is there
>> a step I missed to get this working? Do I need to enable something in the
>> xorg.conf?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>     
>
> Make sure your driver is set to "nvidia", not "nv"!
>   
And that Myth has XvMC support compiled in.

Tom