Dave Cohen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to this list. But I've spent some time reading the archives and > website over the past week. I'm putting together my first mythtv box. I'm a > software guy, not a hardware guy, so this is a learning experience for me. > My > goal is to build a nice DVR and get rid of this lousy box from Comcast. > > Anyway I'm starting with a Commell LV-667 board, because I got a good deal on > craigslist. It's got a VIA CN400, with VT1625. I'm having a hard time > making > it do everything it's supposed to do. I'll probably have a number of > questions for this list, but I'll start with one about XvMC. > > I've read that openchrome supports XvMC on this board, but I can't get mythtv > to use it. I've tried to follow documentation, mostly > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC. But instead of an image to the > screen I get messages like "Desired video renderer 'xvmc-blit' not available" > from my mythfrontend. > Rather than mythtv which is not that easy to setup properly, you'd rather first give a go at xine to make sure the hardware mpeg acceleration works. Once xine is installed, just use something like 'xine --verbose -V xxmc dvd:/' and carefully read the output. You should have a CPU usage of around 10% while playing a DVD.
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