> I believe that he is refering to mpeg2 hd. About a year ago the nvidia binary > drivers stopped working with agp cards for decoding mpeg2 content.
Yes indeed this was my issue. On the nvidia user forum, I learned I needed to shut down AGP to get XVMC working for mpeg2 HD viewing. It's working again. Thanks, Jim Jonathan Isom wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Jason Tackaberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 16:52 -0400, Jim Duda wrote: >>> I've been using an Nvidia FX6200 video card with freevo for a while now. >>> I play HD content, so I need the Xvmc feature. >> Unless this has changed by a very recent development I haven't heard of >> yet, XvMC cannot be used to decode VC-1 and H264. I recall some effort >> underway to address this as a stopgap until VAAPI ascends from vaporware >> status, but I don't believe has approached something resembling a usable >> state yet. >> >> So, on Linux, for the time being, we are left compensating for this lack >> of capability by buying beefier CPUs (and further waiting for libavcodec >> to support frame threading). >> >> Jason. >> > I believe that he is refering to mpeg2 hd. About a year ago the nvidia binary > drivers stopped working with agp cards for decoding mpeg2 content. > > Later > > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Freevo-users mailing list >> Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
