[mythtv-users] Video Card Recommendation

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Nick Bright <boberz at thewatch.org> wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> > On Aug 13, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Nick Bright wrote:
> >
> >> I followed the instructions at
> >>
> >> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#Configuring_xorg.conf
> >>
> >> according to
> >>
> >> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#Checking_your_installation
> >>
> >> it's enabled, but to be honest I don't know any other way of checking.
> >>
> >> Maybe I'm using xvmc-opengl? TBH I don't know.
> >
> > Check your frontend log as you try to play a video. It will tell you
> > if you're using xvmc or not. You clearly have xvmc installed and
> > working, but you won't be using it unless you set your playback
> > profile to use it.
>
> Actually, I had no idea that I had to set the playback profile to use
> it. It's not mentioned anywhere on the XvMC documentation pages!
>
> I'll look in to that after I get off work.


Perhaps you missed this section?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#Configuring_MythTV

"XvMC usage is controlled using the Playback
profiles<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Playback_profiles>feature
of MythTV as of version 0.21. In previous versions, you simply set
the Preferred MPEG-2 Decoder to one of the XvMC methods appropriate for your
chipset. With 0.21, this is a more flexible configuration allowing for
different decoders depending on the content. For XvMC, the Bob deinterlacer
provides the best deinterlacing but with some performance penalty. "

Kevin
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