[Openchrome-users] Modular Xorg - missing XvMC support (Gentoo)

[Thomas Hellström]

Daniel Heemann wrote:

>On Wednesday 30 November 2005 18:27, Daniel Heemann wrote:
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>>>http://www.hekanetworks.com/opensource/xf86-video-openchrome.tgz
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>>I tried the freedesktop.org package first which failed.
>>I tried your openchrome package which seems to work fine - at least
>>Xorg.log reports that XvMC is detected and activated - of course it now
>>also reports the Xv memcopy tests.
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>Even if X reports the correct XvMC initialization I can't get it working:
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>Mplayer and Xine report
>"X11 error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)" resp.
>"received X error event: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)"
>Mplayer crashes with signal 6 in module decode_video and the xine window 
>displays a mainly green screen which becomes distorted in the top quarter 
>and sometimes you can see a part of a 'correct' (still in green colors) 
>decoded frame or similar.
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>I build these packages from recent cvs (20051201) which did not solve the 
>problem:
>- mplayer
>  (incl. the patch from http://www.openchrome.org/snapshots/mplayer/)
>- xine-lib
>- the openchrome modular-branch xf86-video-via drivers
>  (incl. the path from https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4720)
>- drm.ko/via.ko
>- libXv
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It appears your X server doesn't want to create shared memory XvImages. 
Does it have the MIT-SHM extension?

Check with xdpyinfo.

Does xine -V xv run?

libXvMCW should get built by the modular Xorg modular source lib/XvMC. 
At least mine did right now from CVS.

>I also tried to build libXvMC from cvs but it does not contain libXvMCW 
>anymore (or is it in a separate project?) which seems to be required to 
>build xine/mplayer with XvMC support - at least the configure script wants 
>to link to it.
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>What did I miss?
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libXvMCW should get built by the modular Xorg modular source lib/XvMC. 
At least mine did right now from CVS.

>Thanks & Regards
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