Introduction

CoreAVC can be used with MythTV in 2 ways:

Use dshowserver and apply the dshowserver patch to mythtv (x86_64 and ia32)
Load the directshow code directly into mythtv using the libdshowloader patch (ia32 only)

The following details the dshowserver method. Instructions for installing via libdshowloader can be found <<PUT LINK HERE>>

Details

1) Download the code from svn:

svn checkout http://coreavc-for-linux.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ coreavc-for-linux 
cd coreavc-for-linux

2) Install dshowserver forrlowing these instructions: DshowserverInstall

3) Install the mythtv patch

cd <path to mythsrc>
patch -p0 < <path to coreavc-for-linux>/mythtv/dshowserver.patch
make
make install
cp <path to coreavc-for-linux>/mythtv/dshowcodecs ~/.mythtv

Comment by cymenvig, Apr 14, 2008

Does this provide CoreAVC AVC1 acceleration to the mythvideo plugin? What about regular MythTV (assuming one has AVC1 encoded files)? I'd just try the patch but it is failing against release-0-21-fixes at the moment.