[mythtv-users] Missing Xv?

[Rutger Hendriks]

On Thursday 27 January 2005 19:43, frutillar at comcast.net wrote:
> I have that option already selected in my setup.  I looked at the log for
> the frontend because I only get sluggish video playback from my pvr-350
> (see "prebuffering pause" in the frontend log) .
>
> I do have X and the MythTV GUI showing on my TV, so it seems the TV-Out is
> mostly Ok.  It just seems MythTV is not using the encoder on the TV-Out.
>
> Any thoughts?

If you tick that option and have it point to /dev/video16 there should not be 
xv error messages (if the device can be used successfully)
Maybe it points to something else?




> > On Thursday 27 January 2005 16:01, John Harvey wrote:
> > > The ivtv X driver does not support Xv at the moment.
> > > However to use the 350's output properly tick the
> > > option in Setup/Tv/Playback to enable the use PVr 350
> > > output. Then it talks directly to the 350 and you wont
> > > need Xv support.
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > If you tick that option you'd still get the error messages, right?
> >
> > >  --- Frutillar <frutillar at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > =======================================
> > > > ...
> > > > X Error: XvBadPort 152
> > > >   Major opcode:  141
> > > >   Minor opcode:  15
> > > >   Resource id:  0xffffffff
> > > > X Error: XvBadPort 152
> > > >   Major opcode:  141
> > > >   Minor opcode:  14
> > > >   Resource id:  0xffffffff
> > > > Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it.
> > > > You likely won't get any video.
> > > > ***
> > > > * Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to non-Xv
> > > > mode.
> > > > * MythTV performance will be much slower since color
> > > > * conversion and scaling will be done in software.
> > > > * Consider upgrading your video card or X server if
> > > > * you would like better performance.
> > > > 2005-01-26 22:54:11 Changing from None to
> > > > WatchingLiveTV
> > > > 2005-01-26 22:54:12 Using realtime priority.
> > > > 2005-01-26 22:54:13 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to
> > > > None
> > > > 2005-01-26 22:54:13 Changing from None to None
> > > > 2005-01-26 22:54:17 All Programs
> > > > 2005-01-26 22:54:23 prebuffering pause
> > > > ...
> > > > =======================================
> >
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