On Thursday 02 December 2004 16:04, Matt Picker wrote: > So this xvMC stuff all confuses me. I looked into the > tv tuner stuff and found how to get the remote working > the way I want so that won't be a problem. What is > the xvMC stuff exactly?
I believe X video Motion Compensation is what it stands for, but its more than just motion compensation. Its hardware assistance for decoding video. > Does Myth use this > automatically? You have to compile support for it into Myth, then I believe it is enabled by default. > I saw something about it regarding > xine. Do I have to use xine or will mplayer still use > this stuff? I believe either one will use XvMC if configured to do so. > To clear things up, correct me if I am wrong, the > Unichrome drivers are open source video drivers that > already contain all the 3d stuff to make gl work > smooth. Sort of. The default driver does no 3D acceleration, there's a relatively new branch that does do 3D, but still has some problems. Read over the pages at that link I sent, and http://unichrome.sourceforge.net. > This xvMC stuff refers to the mpeg decoding > portion of the mobo. Thats all i got so far. That's pretty much it. > Is there anything special about the Unichrome drivers? Like what? -- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
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