XvMC and vdr-plugin-xine

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Tobias Grimm may or may not have written...

> Marcus Klein wrote:
>> libXvMCW is a wrapper for vendor-specific XvMC libraries. The problem is
>> that libXvMCW only exists in XOrg and not in XFree. I only know about
>> ubuntu linux based on debian that provides XOrg. Therefore most debian
>> based systems doesn't have access to .deb packaged XOrg.

> I stumbled across this repository:

> http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/debian/unichrome/
> http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/debian/

> Anyone tried this yet?

You've probably noticed by now that some of those packages are based on my
packages. ;-)

I think that it's best to wait for X.Org to appear in unstable and to get vdr
1.3.x or 1.4.x into unstable then to do some backporting. (1.3.24-2.ds should
be appearing soon.)

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