[mythtv-users] Can't get XvMC compiled in MythTV

[Daniel Kristjansson]

> As for the Intel stuff, I follow the Xorg list a bit and thought that
> they hadn't implemented XvMC, but is that just for the newer chipsets
> then?  Or am I misreading, or misunderstanding the discussions?  I
> seem to remember reading something about XvMC being "on their list"
> but wasn't high priority because of the processors that usually are
> teamed up with the newer chipsets.  So because a decent Core Duo is
> able to decode HDTV, no real 'need' for XvMC for the general populous,
> thus low priority.
> 
> All just my meandering reading so please feel free to correct or clarify.

I think they are talking about the i915 chips, for which Intel
released a not-greatly-functional-yet GPL driver. I was talking
about the i810 family of chips. Last I heard, the problem with
the i915 is that Intel won't release the documentation for the
chip, so Intel's devs are the only people who can work
efficiently on the driver development, so the i915 driver
has taken much longer to develop into something useful than we
are used to in OSS.

-- Daniel