Xv/XVideo?

[Thor Johnson]

Greetings (and mucho thanks for the -norestart option for Xhost oddities)!

I have a new boneheaded question:
What is the difference between xv (as used in mplayer, ogle, etc) and
XVideo?

mplayer told me to use xvinfo to see if xv was working properly; under
cyg/XF86 on my, I get:
    $ xvinfo
    X-Video Extension version 2.2
    screen #0
    no adaptors present

I'm trying to get my windows box in shape for some MythTV development.
Slow is much better than none (at least until MythTV 0.8 gels).

Is there a config file I need or ???.

TIA,
Thor Johnson