[mythtv-users] Help Enabling VDPAU Support During Compile Time!

[Shawn King]

On 12/13/2012 04:34 PM, Raymond Boettcher wrote:
>
> Yeah, I was thinking that too. I've seen the option enabled before and 
> was suprised it refused this time. I was more concerned that the 
> latest MythTV build didn't detect the vdpau headers from the latest 
> drivers and that I may need to actually downgrade my driver to get 
> this support to work. In which case this would be more of a bug as I'm 
> sure many developers just upgrade their drivers which may leave legacy 
> header files laying around causing MythTV to detect vdpau because of 
> those files.
>
> So really I just wanted to establish if those headers were included 
> with the NVidia binary driver or if a separate package needed to be 
> downloaded. Surely SOMEONE is using vdpau on a build your own distro 
> system instead of one of those "do it for you" distros out there.
>
> Raymond Boettcher
>
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> *From: * Chris Porter <hoodlum7 at gmail.com>;
> *To: * Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>;
> *Subject: * Re: [mythtv-users] Help Enabling VDPAU Support During 
> Compile Time!
> *Sent: * Wed, Dec 12, 2012 11:49:16 PM
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> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Raymond Boettcher 
> <raymondboettcher at yahoo.com <javascript:return>> wrote:
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>
>     I did Slackware 14 on x86. Its at the bottom of the message. But
>     basically the answer is I need vdpau dev libs. Where can I get the
>     source for compile? Thanks...
>
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>     *From: * Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info <javascript:return>>;
>     *To: * Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org
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>     *Subject: * Re: [mythtv-users] Help Enabling VDPAU Support During
>     Compile Time!
>     *Sent: * Wed, Dec 12, 2012 9:45:06 AM
>
>     Raymond Boettcher wrote:
>     > *VDPAU support no*
>
>
>     You don't say what distro you're running.  For RPM based distros
>
>     urpmi vdpau-devel
>     yum install vdpau-devel
>
>     Deb based:
>
>     apt-get install libvdpau-dev
>
>     Doug
>
>
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> if you have installed the NVidia drivers directly from NVidia it 
> should include the header files needed when compiling MythTV.
>
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i think the drivers only include the library now and not the header 
files so you might need to compile the libvdpau package(for slackware 
you can find it here: 
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/libraries/libvdpau/)


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