Todd Ignasiak wrote: >Hi Michael, > >FYI -- XvMC is the Linux equivalent to Windows DxVA. They both do >the same function, using the same video processor hardware. MythTV, >mplayer, and xine all implement the XvMC API to support accelerated >playback. > >XvMC is only available with NVidia's drivers or the VIA/S3/Unichrome >drivers. ATI does not provide linux support. And, I have not found >XvMC to be as stable/reliable as DxVA is. But, the capability is >there. > >-Todd > > Todd- This is great information that I was unaware of. (silly me) I hope you dont mind that I've quoted you and cc'd the list. I'll google "XvMC" ... Thanks, Mike