[mythtv-users] Problems with ivtvdev_drv

Prash getprashman at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 10:59:48 UTC 2004


As it says you don't have a X driver with Xv support. Remove the -vo
xv from the command . Are you using the patched mplayer from atrpms?

Try using the ivtvdev driver that came with the source.

What is your videocard make?


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:12:10 +0000, Eggert Thorlacius
<eggi at menandmice.com> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have been trying to install MythTV on a FC2 box with a Hauppauge PVR
> 350 card (PAL version) with no success for the last few weeks.  I
> followed Jarod's guide and got to the point where I could see X on my
> TV and play TV by catting /dev/video0 to /dev/video16, but when I tried
> using mplayer to play fullsceen, it quit with the error message "there
> is no Xvideo support for your video card available"
> I posted to this list and got no reply, so I decided to swap hard disks
> and start over.
> 
> Now I have three different scenarios:
> * If I try starting X after following sections 1 to 10 of Jarods guide,
> I get "Failed to load module "ivtvdev" (module does not exist, 0)"
> * If I move ivtvdev_drv.o from /usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/drivers to
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers, I get "LoadModule: Module ivtvdev does
> not have a ivtvdevModuleData data object"
> * And if I install the http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ivtvdev_drv.o.gz
> module in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers, I can start X but mplayer
> refuses to work ( I do get the error "IVTVDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY:
> Invalid argument" in my Xorg.0.log, but it doesn't stop X from
> starting)
> 
> So what am I doing wrong?  What version of ivtvdev_drv am I supposed to
> use and where am I supposed to put it?
> Regards,
> Eggert Thorlacius
> 
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