[Openchrome-users] Introduction and first question

[Xavier Bachelot]

Dave Cohen wrote:
> 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.
> 
Rather than mythtv which is not that easy to setup properly, you'd
rather first give a go at xine to make sure the hardware mpeg
acceleration works. Once xine is installed, just use something like
'xine --verbose -V xxmc dvd:/' and carefully read the output. You should
have a CPU usage of around 10% while playing a DVD.

Regards,
Xavier