[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV Problem.....

Joel Melohn jlmelohn at jcsm.com
Mon Jul 21 00:40:00 EDT 2003


I have been having the same problems with a blank screen when I would try to
view live TV or to play a previously recorded program.

My problem was that the ALSA sound system was not installed properly. I had
initially tried to run without installing ALSA sound drivers because I saw
some comments that there might be some native support in MythTV 0.10 for
ALSA.

I followed the description of how to install the ALSA in the documentation
and the "blank screen" is gone.

Hopely, this information might help resolve your problem.

Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Darrel Niemann
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 8:55 PM
To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV Problem.....


OK, someone stated that my TNT2 card may be the culprit, so I changed
it out with a Geforce2 GTS card. I now still get the whole-screen blank
screen, no audio, but an entirely different error message in the
backend window:

Changing from none to WatchingLiveTV
audio volume set to 32768
strange error flushing buffer. ...


Is this one easier to fix? ;-)

I hope someone can help me with this....

thanks!

d





On Saturday, Jul 19, 2003, at 22:33 America/Los_Angeles, Darrel Niemann
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to MythTV...I installed everything as per instructions on
> their website, I use RH 9 with on-board audio (OSS?) and a TNT2
> graphics card, with a Hauppauge WinTV PCI capture card. I am using an
> anntena for broadcast signal (just to try this out).
>
> Everything starts up normally, the mythbackend starts fine.
> When I start the frontend, and select "watch tv", my entire screen
> goes blank and nothing happens.
> I have to kill the frontend process to get rid of this.
>
> When I look at the backend window, it says something like "invalid
> format" and "Vidioc_g_fmt:: invalid argument". If need be, I can get
> the exact error and post it here.
>
> Any tips or help would be highly appreciated! Please help!
>
> Darrel
>

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