[mythtv-users] Playback/TV display failing

[Michael J. Lynch]

Try running the frontend from a command prompt and see if you are 
getting a "BadAlloc" error from X when the problem occurs.  If so, the 
problem is with the X.org distro of X.  The only way I've found to fix 
the problem is to switch back to an XFREE distro of X.


Stephen Tait wrote:

> Hmm. Bit of an odd problem.
>
> Basically, TV playback is periodically failing. By this, I mean when I 
> go to watch live TV, or play back a TV recording, I sometimes get a 
> blank screen, although I can hear the sound playing back. This only 
> seems to affect TV streams recorded from my PVR-250, since fullscreen 
> video and DVD playback via Xine works fine. A reboot or X restart 
> sorts it out. From memory, this only occurred after I switched from 
> XFree86 to x.org. I've checked the obvious logs, but couldn't find 
> anything that looked relevant. The streams are all recorded fine, 
> since I can play them back in Myth (eventually) and from other machines.
>
> FYI, my setup is as following:
>
> Myth 0.15.1 (with XV support)
> ivtv 0.19r3
> nVidia 5336 (output via VGA to a bog standard CRT)
> x.org 6.7r1
> 2.4.25
>
> Anyone got any pointers as to what might be going wrong?
>
> TIA!
>
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