[mythtv-users] NVIDIA Video acceleration and myth

[Carl Fongheiser]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Kelvin Smith
<kelvins at kelhome.dyndns.org> wrote:
> I have been watching the other thread with interest since I read through
> this list that video acceleration of h.264 is now available (although
> beta).  However, the list has gone far off topic and I have lost
> interest, and started this.
>
> Has anyone tried to incorporate the new driver into Myth (0.21) yet? I
> understand myth uses mplayer for tv playback, so is it a patch to turn
> on this functionality (like the skiploopfilter patch)?


MythTV does *not* use mplayer for TV playback.  I don't know where
this idea comes from.  mplayer used to be the default player for
MythVideo, but that's another thing entirely.

Carl Fongheiser