<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 17/11/2008, at 12:40 AM, Steve Hodge wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:46 PM, <<a href="mailto:banksie@paradise.net.nz">banksie@paradise.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Quoting Steven Ellis <<a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a>>:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">At the moment the best way to test is with MPlayer. Might be a while<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">before we see MythTV patches.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Would we need MythTV patches? Myth can be configured to use ffmpeg as its<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">decoder and if that is patched (which the nVidia release says they have patched)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">then surely that would do all the heavy lifting for Myth? Or am I missing something?<br></blockquote><br>I believe Myth doesn't link to ffmpeg directly, it has an internal<br>copy (which is modified). So Myth will need to be synched to the new<br>version of ffmpeg (once that project adopts the nVidia patches) or the<br>nVidia patches need to be applied to the local copy. How long it takes<br>all depends on how large and invasive nVidia's changes are.<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Plus I'd expect to see some preference changes to enable/disapbe VDPAU support in the same way you can currently select XVMC, OpenGL etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>