The VIA Epia systems are widely sold as small barebones and support hardware MPEG decoding, which drops CPU usage to around 2-3%. I'm using the patches from http://unichrome.sf.net for a long time on my box. As of 1_rc7 the xine people incorporated one of the patches, thus xine-lib now has native support for the above mentioned feature. I attached a patch for xine-lib-1_rc7.ebuild that sets the necessary configure options to enable that support. The use flag "cle266" is common among people who use Gentoo on the VIA Epia chipsets and can be seen as kind of a standard. For more information see http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=421046 and http://www.epiawiki.org. Would be glad to see that in portage soon - would spare lots of people at least one proprietary ebuild. Regards, Torsten
Created attachment 43889 [details, diff] xine-lib-1_rc7-xxmc.patch
I would love to see this too. With this in there is no need for any proprietary ebuilds. The latest xorg is synced with unichrome. And the latest kernel patches (2.6.9-epia0) aplies cleanly on top of the gentoo-dev-sources.
Created attachment 51284 [details, diff] Patch to add viaXvMC support to xine lib Here's a patch against the newest 1.0 xine-lib ebuild that adds viaXvMC support. I've worked this into the existing xvmc if statement. I also found that the configure script fails to find certain headers if --x-includes is not set (that goes for nvidia xvmc as well as via), so I added a statement to set this too.
Reference in bug 82571 suggests patch was applied, and Herbie requests bug be closed and marked 'Resolved - Fixed' so I'm gonna go ahead and do that.
