
sonofzev at iinet
Jun 20, 2009, 9:35 PM
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Re: gentoo VDPAU ported ebuilds or alternatives?
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On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 07:37 +1000, allan wrote: > Awesome.. > > Thankyou. I will try and use these. > > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 08:55 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:50 AM, > > sonofzev [at] iinet<sonofzev [at] iinet> wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > > > I've had a system running on Gentoo for a while, but in an effort to consolidate > > > power usage I am moving my backend to my general home > > > file-server/firewall/router. Let me know if this is a bad idea first.... > > > > > > I have VDPAU capable cards for my two frontends, but have been waiting patiently > > > for the 0.22 release of MythTV. > > > > > > I am not the most patient person so I was wondering about a few alternatives to > > > make use of VDPAU on my frontend machines. > > > > > > 1. Running Gentoo on my backend with the most current 0.21 ebuild. . Using a > > > custom ebuild for the patched version (either making my own or using this one > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-731657-highlight-vdpau+mythtv.html) > > > > > > 2. Running Gentoo on my backend with the most current 0.21 ebuild, but using > > > mythbuntu (or ubuntu normal) with Jean's patched versions of 0.21. > > > > > > 3. Any other alternatives that people might suggest. > > > > > > Lastly, I could always keep waiting for 0.22 and for it to make it into portage.. > > > if people think that it is getting close (say within 6 months) as my frontend > > > systems are powerful enough to do fairly good de-interlacing. > > > > > > cheers > > > > > > > I have the patches in my gentoo overlay. > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259009 > > > > > > I am currently using this on my frontend and it works great. > > > > jmd0 ~ # equery l mythtv > > [ Searching for package 'mythtv' in all categories among: ] > > * installed packages > > [I--] [ ] media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p20549 (0) > > [I--] [ ] x11-themes/mythtv-themes-0.21_p20507 (0) > > > > jmd0 ~ # equery uses mythtv > > [ Searching for packages matching mythtv... ] > > [ Colour Code : set unset ] > > [. Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] > > [. : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] > > [ Found these USE variables for media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p20549 ] > > U I > > + + aac : Enables support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio > > + + alsa : Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib > > (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) > > - - altivec : Adds support for optimizations for G4 and > > G5/ppc970 processors > > - - autostart : Uses a custom autostart configuration > > gleened from expierence with MythTV since it's early versions and > > discussed with other MythTV maintainers and users. Does not rely on > > KDE being installed like most methods do. > > - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts > > and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml > > - - directv : Installs the DirecTV channel changing script > > so that you can configure MythTV to use it to change the channels on > > your DirecTV box. > > + + dvb : Adds support for DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) > > + + dvd : Adds support for DVDs > > + + fftw : Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms > > + + ieee1394 : Enable FireWire/iLink IEEE1394 support (dv, > > camera, ...) > > - - jack : Adds support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit > > - - lcd : Tells MythTV that you have an instance of > > app-misc/lcdproc configured on your machine and it should output > > information such as current time, show name, episode name, etc to that > > LCD. > > - - lirc : Adds support for lirc (Linux's Infra-Red > > Remote Control) > > + + mmx : Adds support for optimizations for Pentium > > MMX and Athlon class processors > > + + opengl : Adds support for OpenGL (3D graphics) > > + + perl : Adds support/bindings for the Perl language > > + + python : Adds support/bindings for the Python language > > + + vdpau : <unknown> > > + + video_cards_nvidia : VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for > > nvidia video cards > > + + xvmc : Instructs MythTV to use XvMC for it's video > > output. By default, this will use the generic XvMC wrapper unless a > > specific video card driver is enabled via their VIDEO_CARDS USE flags. > > > > > > Installation instructions for my overlay are in the wiki: > > > > http://wiki.github.com/drescherjm/jmdgentoooverlay > > > > > > then install media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p20549 and also any of its plugins. > > > > John Hi I've added your overlay but I still don't get the listing for that version when I do an emerge -pv mythtv.. I have enabled the ~amd64 keyword or is this masked by **? Regards allan _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users [at] mythtv http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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