[ubuntu-mythtv] XvMC gone

[Eloy Paris]

Mario, team,

The 1:0.24.0+fixes27305-0ubuntu1 changelog contains:

   * Disable XvMC as it's causing crashes.  VDPAU is better off in these
     situations anyhow (LP: #660833)

This caught me completely by surprise since I did not see it announced 
anywhere, but most importantly because it broke my working XvMC setup.

To provide a bit of background, I understand that VDPAU is the way to do 
things today, but XvMC was the recommended way to do things a couple of 
years ago, and XvMC is the only thing that gives decent playback 
performance in aging hardware.

In my particular case, while I'd love to move to VDPAU, I am not in a 
position to upgrade my aging hardware right now so my only option is to 
stay with XvMC for as long as I can.

For this reason I'd like to understand the rationale for disabling XvMC 
in the latest packages. Given that it is easy to just configure things 
so XvMC is not used it seems to me like completely disabling XvMC is a 
heavy-handed approach since the only solution available to those that 
rely on XvMC is to rebuild new packages from scratch.

Myth developers just announced that XvMC and libmpeg2 are being removed 
in 0.25. That was a nice heads up, which would have been nice to see for 
the XvMC change in the recent Mythbuntu packages.

Any chance XvMC can be re-enabled for users with aging hardware like myself?

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-