[mythtvnz] Fwd: [mythtv] New Video Decode and Presentation API

[Michael Dilger]

>
> At the moment the best way to test is with MPlayer. Might be a while
> before we see MythTV patches.

I tried their patches, using their script (on an older revision of
mplayer) and like they warn, it doesn't compile with gcc 4.3.2 (which is
what I have installed).

Then I applied their patches to the newest mplayer.  There were a number
of rejects, but nothing that couldn't be fixed manually.  Unfortunately
right at the end of the build, during the final link, it gives this error:
    allcodecs.c:(.text+0x1d9): undefined reference to `h264_vdpau_decoder'
    allcodecs.c:(.text+0x4b5): undefined reference to `vc1_vdpau_decoder'
    allcodecs.c:(.text+0x551): undefined reference to `wmv3_vdpau_decoder'

I'm not sure if libavcodec is simply not linking in all the code, or if
there are missing bits.  I tried to force configure with
    --enable-decoder=vc1 --enable-decoder=wmv3 --enable-decoder=h264
to no better effect.

If someone figures out how to get it compiled, I'll copy those
instructions and test the performance effects on my hardware.

-Mike