[Openchrome-users] Newbee Question: Openchrome sufficient for watching DivX?

[John Robinson]

On 08/03/2006 10:04, Bazon wrote:
> Thanks for your answer, Ivor, of course I have some questions again:
> 
> Ivor Hewitt schrieb:
> 
>> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:41, Bazon wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hello, I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 on a Via Epia M 6000 and I'm relativly new
>>> on it....
>>>    
>>>
>> Check the output of xine and the contents of your Xorg.log file to see mention 
>> of XvMC.
>>
>>  
>>
> 1. Xine output:
> If you mean the video output: Still too slow. (But I'm not sure how to 
> set up Xine-ui 0.99.3, too (e.g. picking a video driver...  ...at least 
> XvMC isn't mentioned in Xine-ui 0.99.3/settings/video/driver [menu, not 
> path]))

Start xine with -V xxmc or open the setup page, and on the video tab 
pick xxmc as the video driver to use; that's how to get xine to use the 
VIA XvMC driver. If you go via the setup page, you'll need to quit and 
restart xine for it to take effect.

If you have no xxmc option, your installation of xine doesn't have the 
driver in it, and you'll need to find a copy that does, or build 
xine-lib from source.

openChrome doesn't yet include mpeg4/divx acceleration, but even if it 
did it wouldn't help as the CLE266 chipset on the M6k doesn't do 
anything for mpeg4; I'm amazed you can watch divx under Windows XP on 
your machine.

> 3. I tried to install the Via Enhanced Xine Player from 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/viaexp/ but I didn't suceed, as it 
> claims I haven't installed the UniChrome Pro VGA driver, but in fact I 
> didn't try, as I read, the UniChrome driver doesn't support mpeg 
> accelaration anymore.
> So the Via Enhanced Xine Player doesn't work with OpenChrome?

No it won't work with openChrome or L*c's unichrome driver; vexp is for 
the VIA binary drivers only.

Cheers,

John.