XVMC under Linux for EPIA. Others too?

[slamduncan]

Received information from tech support of how to enable XVMC accelerated playback under Linux for the EPIA built-in graphics when using the openchrome driver.

In ~/.sagetv/SageTVPlaceshifter.properties file set the following:

xvmc=true

I noticed that mplayer still uses the mplayer option "-vo xv" rather then "-vo xvmc" as per the out-of-the-box mplayer but it certainly seems to be making use of the hardware acceleration. I think it's the "-mc 1" option that is added to the mplayer command line. Means that the XVMC patch for mplayer must have been included in the miniclient mplayer version too.

I'd be interested to hear if this works for other drivers/hardware configs. Especially GFX5200 cards if anyone can test this please?

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xvmc is not currently supported. We have done tests with it previously but there were some issues.

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[slamduncan]

Demo,
Could you be more specific about the issues you saw please? I certainly haven't seen as big a CPU utilisation decrease as I see with a self-compiled mplayer but it does seem to make playback smoother.
Cheers,
D.

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The current version doesn't include xvmc so all it did was disable post processing most likely.

We had issues with getting it to work on various systems because of different dependencies and also with the lack of deinterlacing.

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