[vlc] Re: vlc 0.8.1, Unichrome Pro, no video

[MagicITX]

On 6/3/05, Dermot McGahon <dermot at dspsrv.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 05:27:20 +0100, MagicITX <magicitx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I compiled and installed the 20050601 snapshot.  I can now leave the
> > chroma unspecified and it works fine.  However I'm still seeing a 40%
> > cpu utilization for vlc and 15% for X.  It says its using Xv but I
> > assume from these numbers it is not using the h/w
> > acceleration/decoding.
> >
> > To us h/w decoding vlc would need to link to the wrapper
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so or directly to libviaXvMCPro.so.  I can't
> > tell from the build scripts if it does either of these.  Suggestions?
> 
> 
>  From a previous email:
> 
> "You won't get h/w mpeg decoding but you know that right? The best
>   you will get is XV acceleration."
> 
> Unfortunately, it's not as simple as just linking to the library. We
> also need to write a video output module that uses the capabilities
> provided by the module.
> 
> Both mplayer and xine already had xvmc support and this was easily
> extendable to unichrome xxmc.
> 
> It shouldn't be overly difficult, but the unichrome developers use
> mplayer and xine and so that is where they concentrated their efforts.
> 
> There is somebody working on this but he hasn't released source code
> to date.
> 
> 
> 
> Dermot.
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Ah, ok.  I'll keep my eyes open.  Thanks for your help!

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Tim
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