[mythtvnz] Chch setup help please?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Wayne
<waynefilter at embeddedengineering.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On 2009/12/29, at 10:00 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone in Chch help me set up MythTV on a Via epia m10000,
>>>> PVR-150 system on-site please?
>>>
>>> Hi Wayne
>>>
>>> I've just recently put a 0.22 frontend onto an Epia SP13000 (a bit
>>> more
>>> grunt than yours but not much!) but found that the only kernels
>>> that seems
>>> to work correctly to get the XvMC drivers from OpenChrome to work
>>> are ones
>>> prior to 2.6.26. Not a problem for me (I use Gentoo so I just mix
>>> up what
>>> I fancy) but I did find I had to use an old version of udev as well.
>>>
>>
>> I have volunteered to help Wayne when i get a chance, but i must say
>> the thought of getting openchrome and xvmc to work out of the box i
>> making me nervous.
>>
>
> Allegedly the openchrome XvMC is fixed with the 2.6.31 kernel, which
> I've updated to. Possibly the trouble I'm having is mplayer options.
> It didn't like the -xo xvmc option (complaints about scaling). I've
> yet to look deeply into that, maybe in the next couple of days.
>

i have seen a post indicating someone has got xvmc working on epia
with kosmic (ubuntu 9.10). That might be our first try given that i am
familiar with it.