[mythtv] Xv Support problems

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 29 November 2002 11:41 pm, Rory wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Just installed mythtv and I am having problems watching TV. It tells me
> that
>
> 'Couldn't find Xv support, exiting'
>
> So the first thing I did was go to the mailing lista archive so I wouldn't
> be wasting peoples time.
>
> From what I got from there was someone having this problem but when they
> ran xvinfo they were told that the adapter was not present and thats not
> what I got. Please see attached output from the xvinfo at the end of the
> mail.
>
> I had a look around the website and other sites to see if I could solve the
> problem myself but have had no luck, I have tried switching to KDE
> (don't ask for some reason that was suggested for a simliar problem) and
> that did no good it just stays confused for much longer. I couldn't find a
> list of support cards on the website but i include the relvant output of
> lspci
>
> 01:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 11)
> 01:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> (rev 11)
>
> If anyone has any ideas as to what is wrong as all the support seems to be
> there but it's not finding it.

If that's the entire output of xvinfo, then no, you don't have support for xv 
output, and the error message mythtv's giving you is correct.

Isaac