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. I've also seen this thread: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki- view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=5036&topics_threshold=0&topics_offset=16&topics_sort_mode=title_desc&topics_find=&forumId=1 But I'm not sure exactly what's being said there. Some sites claim that with openchrome and my board I should get XvMC, but I'm not sure anyone's actually done it. I've also compiled the xvmcinfo code from the mythtv.org URL above. It's output is pasted below. I don't grok all of it, but I'm concerned that it lists only MPEG1. Shouldn't I see MPEG2 as a format? I appreciate any guidance with this stuff, even if it's "go out and get another board". Let me know if there's changes I can make to the drivers, or patches to test. I'm using the latest openchrome from svn on Arch linux. -Dave xvmcinfo output: Xv version 2.2 XvMC version 1.1 screen number 0 info for adaptor 0 [XV_SWOV] number of XvMC surface types: 2 info about surface 0: max_width=2048 max_height=2048 subpicture_max_width=2048 subpicture_max_height=2048 chroma_format: XVMC_CHROMA_FORMAT_420 mc_type: format : MPEG1 accelaration start from : flags: MOCOMP XVMC_OVERLAID_SURFACE XVMC_BACKEND_SUBPICTURE info about surface 1: max_width=2048 max_height=2048 subpicture_max_width=2048 subpicture_max_height=2048 chroma_format: XVMC_CHROMA_FORMAT_420 mc_type: format : MPEG1 accelaration start from : flags: MOCOMP XVMC_OVERLAID_SURFACE XVMC_BACKEND_SUBPICTURE _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
