[mythtv-users] Problem getting Myth fully functional on Gentoo

[blah99 at comcast.net]

Hello,

I've been working on setting up a MythTV setup on my Gentoo system.  I just have one problem and was wondering if anyone had any ideas.

Basically, the backend system seems to work fine.  It schedules and records show and they record fine.  I can play the resulting files back with something like mplayer.  

The frontend works fine with the sole exception of video playback.  If you try to watch live TV, the screen goes and stays black.  The system has not crashed.  If you switch to another window you can kill the session.  Same kind of deal with watching pre-recorded shows via the frontend.  The interesting thing is that the little thumbnail preview works as well as playing the .nuv files with mplayer.

I should point out I don't have a sound card in the system.  Originally it was just going to be a backend, but at the time I didn't realize that MythWeb doesn't stream video.  I'll add a sound card, but I doesn't seem like that should be the issue.

It seems like some sort of video config issue, but I don't recall seeing anything listed about special setup.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

-john


System specifics:

  Home built system with:
    AMD Duron 900MHz
    ASUS A7V600
    512MB RAM
    4 port Promise SATA controller + drives
    nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev 163)
    *no* sound card!
    (2) National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 NICs
    3Com Corporation Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (built in)
    Adaptec AHA-2940U
    PVR250
    Root disk driven from onboard IDE controller

   Gentoo Linux (current as of a couple of days ago)
     2.4.24 kernel
     NVIDIA driver 1.0-5336
     Promise driver 1.00.0.8
     MythTV 0.13-r1 (current Gentoo release)
     ivtv-0.1.9