Yes, the bug report is mainly about the complete lack of documentation (even the comments in the patch itself incorrectly states that the option is default off).
I wanted to check out XvMC since I'd seen it mentioned as the best output driver for MythTV. I've no idea if that is actually the case, I didn't notice any difference between plain XVideo and XvMC neither with MythTV nor MPlayer on my G33 so it while it seems to work correctly, it's no great loss for me that it's deactivated by default. However - I spent _a lot_ of time trying to figure out why XvMC didn't work, even subscribed to the xorg list and got help (in the form of patches adding more debug output) from a upstream Intel developer. When I finally figured out that the Ubuntu package silently disabled the feature I was a bit upset for having wasted both my time as well as the Intel developer's time (he didn't know Ubuntu did this either). In my opinion, this should have been at least added to README.Debian and the intel(4) manual page. Even better, by extending the patch further a warning could be printed to the X server output: if(!pI830->TexturedXvEnabled) xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_WARNING, "Textured video / XvMC is disabled by default in the Ubuntu driver release, see /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-intel/README.Debian for more info.\n"); Untested but should be obvious enough... Anyway, on the thread I started on the xorg list the following was posted: > I don't think a (default) option to just disable texturedvideo really is > the way to go, if it's desired that overlay video is the default (at > least for now), just the order of the adapters should be switched (so > make the order of the adapters a configure option instead to fix apps > which just pick the first adapter). -- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-June/036648.html I don't know if this suggestion has merit, but thought maybe you'd find it interesting. Tore -- 11_textured_video_option.patch breaks XvMC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244137 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
