[mythtv] 'Couldn't create VideoOutput instance. Exiting..

John Pilkington johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 1 11:42:45 UTC 2020


On 01/02/2020 09:53, Mark Kendall wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 23:12, John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm afraid d49021c still has a problem.  No video playback.  It still
>> looks ok with the preamble.  Thanks again :-)
> 
> Apart from this line:)
> 
> 2020-01-31 22:39:08.692741 I  Using the Qt painter. Video playback
> will not work!
> 
> It's actually working as expected - I just fixed the crash when OpenGL
> initialisation failed so it falls back to the Qt painter.
> 
> Based on a comment from someone else yesterday, I now have a suspicion
> that the root cause of your problem is the same as:
> 
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13538
> 
> While I've recreated the crash in that ticket, others have reported
> that it manifests as falling back to OpenGL software renderer - ie.
> llvm pipe, as in all of your logs. Fingers crossed!
> 
> Thanks
> Mark

There may be some delay.  I'm suddenly getting an sslv3 alert handshake 
failure in the build script.  It looks as if curl, used by spectool, has 
got fussy.




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