[mythtv-users] Enabling XvMC

[F Peeters (MythTV)]

On Wed, November 22, 2006 19:12, Jake Thompson wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>  Ok, so I just tested XvMC(which I thought was working) to see what the
> deal
> is.
>
>
> I have FC6 ATRPMS Myth on a x86_64 machine and an NVidia 7300GS.  I
> enabled
> xvmc(I think) in /etc/X11/XvMConfig and enable it for playback..
>
> However I just did some test, with Standard XvMC set for playback my
> machine
> is running at 40% CPU, using "Standard" of "libmpeg2" I see about 20% CPU.
> So obviously something is wrong with XvMC.
>
> When I have a VIA card, you could see X loading the XvMC library in the
> log,
> I do not see anything about it for NVidia, is there some way I can tell if
> it is being loaded corectly?


I assume you are using the Nvidia binary drivers...

If so, the XvMCConfig (note the double 'C' in there!) should contain:
libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1

HTH

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F Peeters
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