[mythtv-users] Sound but no Picture?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Mar 12 04:58:36 UTC 2003


On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:32 pm, mike wood wrote:
> Hey Gang,
>
> I just got MythTV up and running, well almost.  When go to watch live
> TV, the sound starts, but the picture never shows up.  In fact, the
> picture never leaves the TV Menu.  In the console, I see the following:
>
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> strange error flushing buffer ...
>
> Anyone seen this?  I'm running RH8.  My capture card is the ATI TV
> Wonder VE.  My video is Nvidia GF4.  I just installed the latest Nvidia
> drivers (kernal & GLX).

Sound issue.  

Either a) your card/driver doesn't do full duplex, or b) you've got arts or 
esd or something running that's sitting on the device, and mythtv can't open 
it.  What you're hearing is the audio pass through of the tuner card, read 
the mythtv docs on how to turn that off.

Isaac



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