--- Morten R�nseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe silly question, but what is "XvMC"? Would such > a card offload the > CPU when viewing an mpeg2 stream? > > > Cheers, > > > -Morten > > Robert Johnston wrote: > > >On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:21:08 +0200, Morten R�nseth > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Garry, > >> > >> What make is it? I've seen various cards on ebay, > some of which claim to be > >>doing mpeg2 decoding...(which I have come to > relise isn't very probable). > >> > >> > > > >Chances are, it's not "MPEG2 Decoding", it's more > "MPEG2 Hardware > >Assistance" (In other words, XvMC) > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > WEB-fx > Morten Lerskau R�nseth http://www.webfx.no > Odinsvei 15c > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1413 T�rn�sen Tlf.: (47) 6680 > 9191 > Norway Mob : (47) 9343 > 4357 > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > XvMC is XVideo-MotionCompensation, and yes it takes some of the load off the CPU. It may just be me, but I have had problems getting XvMC to work correctly in myth so I'm currently not using it. In my case it seems that if I use agpgart or NvAGP and XvMC the system becomes unstable, hard lockups, screen freezing, etc.
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