[Mesa-dev] nouveau: xvmc on nv43

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Ilia,
>>
>> I was your last commit which fixing xvmc support for nv30 hw in mesa git tree.
>> Maybe you can help me. I have graphics card nvidia geforce 6600 gt (nv43 chip)
>> According to wiki page http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ xvmc
>> support for nv43 is already done. When I start xvmcinfo it print:
>
> FTR, an individual with a NV43 AGP had trouble with it. See
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/ for a few more
> details. Note that if you're using a recent kernel, you need 3.11-rc4
> or later (nouveau/master is fine too, of course), as support got
> broken at some point.
>
>>
>> $ ./xvmcinfo
>
> Huh, never heard of that. No gentoo ebuild either.

It's available here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XvMC#Checking_your_installation

Maybe we (X.Org) should package it or add it to libXvMC if it's useful.