MythTV Adds Support For NVIDIA VDPAU

[Chewi]

Heh this is good but I bought an ATI card too. Oh, the irony! I'm sure we'll get a similar thing for ATI cards soon though.

[iamlindoro]

..But MythTV uses either Xine, or Mplayer as the actual player by default..

This is completely incorrect. MythTV does NOT use mplayer. MythTV has its own internal player, which is now enabled (and working quite nicely) for VDPAU.

[deanjo]

Good news to see sane people doing good things.

Ya for a change it seems that end users are getting what they want rather then developers playing morality games in linux.

[Cuppa-Chino]

Sad news ...

its an interesting question but there is the problem with

it just works ...

now this where I struggle, I am no evangelist, I have also parked on a yellow line before - I am trying to build an HTPC and I am trying to use foss as much as possible BUT sometimes a compromise ...

well anyhow I am no ferverent nvidia supporter but I now have the option of

a) waiting for a year (probably) before hd4xxx series amd mobo comes out
b) waiting for longer (?) for intel to work
c) to run everything of the cpu
d) to buy nvidia and go closed source driver

what do you think is the realistic thing to do? energy wise running of the gpu is definitely the best to do, also for noise and heat...

[Vadi]

Good news to see sane people doing good things.

[deanjo]

..But MythTV uses either Xine, or Mplayer as the actual player by default..

You can see what patches were done here.

http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/19165

[curaga]

..But MythTV uses either Xine, or Mplayer as the actual player by default..

[deanjo]

Nice. Is it possible to use MythTV in some sort of player-only mode? I'm not interested in the media center functionality.

Yes it is possible to use it with no pvr functions.

[Kjella]

Sad news ...

Waaaaaaaah cry nVidia is providing something the community is not, shame on them. I care more for the 99% vs 1% battle of windows vs linux than the 0.99% vs 0.01% battle between working Linux and broken Linux. Working OSS > Working CSS > Broken OSS any day of the week. If you don't like it, ask bridgman for repo access and get hacking so I can get my working OSS, thankyouverymuch.

[greg]

Nice. Is it possible to use MythTV in some sort of player-only mode? I'm not interested in the media center functionality.