[mythtv-users] VideoOutputXv Error

Carl Fongheiser carlfongheiser at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 09:18:25 EST 2005


On 12/12/05, cardboil <cardboil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I'm using a Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 card (using the pvrusb2 driver) with
> SVN code.  I get the following error in the frontend output:
>
> <snip>
>
> 2005-12-12 15:12:51.715 Disable DPMS
> 0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 0.193
> 1: start_time: 0.024 duration: 0.175
> stream: start_time: 0.272 duration: 2.269 bitrate=6521 kb/s
> 2005-12-12 15:12:53.551 AFD: Opened codec 0xa165430, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
> 2005-12-12 15:12:53.591 AFD: Opened codec 0xa19db30, id(MP2) type(Audio)
> 2005-12-12 15:12:53.594 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2005-12-12 15:12:53.594 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2005-12-12 15:12:53.635 VideoOutputXv Error: Could not find suitable XVideo surface.
> 2005-12-12 15:12:53.635 VideoOutputXv: Falling back to X shared memory video output.
>                               *** May be slow ***
>
> I am guessing that this may have something to do with my poor quality
> video output.
>
> Any ideas?


Sure.  What kind of video card are you using, and what X11 driver are you
using?  You may need to change one or the other.

Carl Fongheiser
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