I had to turn-off XvMC because it was causing myth to error out. I'd like to enable and use it (I think), but not sure how to about it. Also, didn't I see somewhere that some of the de-interlacing routines require XvMC to be disabled?
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:46:34 -0500, Joseph Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Gombos wrote: > > * Joseph Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-17 14:17]: > > > >>Please just try xawtv. It's *so* much easier. Also, you're going > >>to have issues unless you can get Xv working on your video card. > > > > > > Xawtv is the only thing that works for me, and I'm glad you suggested > > it. But the goal is to have MythTV work. I want to take the next > > baby step. > > > > I want to see live tv via MythTV next (which currently displays a > > blank screen). I'm sure there's a smaller step I can take to get > > there. What other tests and troubleshooting can I do, knowing that > > Xawtv works, but mplayer doesn't, and I can't even cat from > > /dev/video0? > > Stop trying to 'cat' from /dev/video0. You're not supposed to do that > with a framegrabber card; that test is meant for hardware MPEG encoder > cards like the PVR-250, that allow you to read an MPEG stream from the > video device. DON'T DO IT!! > > > What exactly is Xv? Is that something that MythTV > > depends on? > > Yes. Xv is the X11 extension that enables 2D scaling of video to be > done by your video card hardware. Without it, your CPU must shoulder > the load. If you're recording at, say, 640x480, but your display > resolution is 800x600, then to display full-screen the video must be > scaled. Doing the scaling in software is quite taxing on your CPU, > hence the need for Xv, so you can let your video card do it. Without > Xv, I doubt you'll be able to watch LiveTV on a PII-400 or whatever it > is you have. That's a pretty lightweight box to try and serve as a > combined backend/frontend IMHO, even *with* Xv. > > -JAC > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users