[mythtv-users] Can't play recordings made pre- PVR-350 TV out

David Smith djs98052 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 21:46:10 UTC 2004


Instead of trying to display the video through the X driver, change
the MythTV settings to use the PVR-350 TV Out directly.  I don't
remember exactly which settings page it is in, but I think it's on one
of the TV Settings pages, or it might be in the General pages.  Once
you enable that, the output should be much smoother since you'll be
using the hardware decoder also.

Make sure you take your audio from the PVR-350 output and not from
your sound card, otherwise the video and audio will be out of sync
enough to be annoying.

-Dave


On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:30:10 -0500, Dan Wilga <dwilga at mtholyoke.edu> wrote:
> Over the weekend, I finally gave up trying to get the lousy
> proprietary ATI fglrx driver working with my on-board ATI 9100 IGP
> chipset TV-out. Their driver apparently doesn't support DRM or GLX
> video sync timing, leaving me with only RTC, which skips every few
> minutes.
> 
> Anyway, I'm now using TV-out on my PVR-250, which works pretty well.
> The problem I have is that some (but not all) of the programs I
> recorded previously now won't play correctly. They display about
> every-other frame, very jerkily, and there is no audio.
> 
> I'm using the same resolution as before, 720 x 480, but the videos
> that won't play give me a whole slew of errors having to do with the
> framerate being incorrect, and no XvM available (*is* there such a
> thing as XvM for ivtv-fbdev?) Oddly, I looked in the files' headers
> with a hex editor, and they do seem to be at the correct resolution
> and framerate.
> 
> BTW, I'm using Myth 0.16, downloaded from CVS on Friday.
> 
> Are there utilities I can use to display the headers of both working
> and non-working files, to more easily compare them?
> 
> Is there some way I can, perhaps, transcode these videos so that they
> will work with the new TV-out?
> --
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