Comment 6 for bug 200633

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Huub Bouma (bouma-w20e) wrote :

I used to compile mythtv from svn (but I was still on the 0.20 version)
but a couple of days ago decided to go for the ubuntu packages (0.21)
Since then the xvmc (nvidia) doesn't work anymore for me. So my guess is that the MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC codec isn't compiled into the mythtv package.
Since it worked for me before this upgrade, and I followed the steps in the XvMC mythtv wiki, I don't think this is a configuration issue. But should the xvmc be in the package, or should I build from svn?

The wiki states the following:

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 The following binary linux distributions support XvMC out of the box:

    * Mandrivia 2006 Free
    * Debian
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So I guess that this answers my question... Ubuntu doesn't support xvmc?

This is the logging from mythfrontend just before the crash:

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2008-03-12 12:53:49.474 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2008-03-12 12:53:49.475 Using protocol version 40
2008-03-12 12:53:53.546 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x8357120, id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video) aborting. reason -1
2008-03-12 12:53:53.688 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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