[mythtv-users] Problems with HW Mpeg decoding on Epia board - MythTV 0.18

Joel Utting joelu.geo at yahoo.com
Tue May 17 23:52:57 UTC 2005


Hi, I'm working at getting myth going on the Epia
M10000 for a possible commercial project, I've worked
through many HOWTO's and info, but I'm having trouble
diagnosing a problem with HW Mpeg. In summary ;

MythTV 0.18 works with I don't compile in XvMC VLD
support - Xv works to watch DVB signal TV but it is
slow and choppy and cuts out regularly (reports
pre-buffering error).

When I compile in XvMC VLD I just get a black screen
when watching TV - this is the terminal window output
;

2005-05-18 09:50:07.970 AvFormatDecoder: Could not
find decoder for codec (4), ignoring.
2005-05-18 09:50:08.153 Opening audio device
'/dev/dsp'.
2005-05-18 09:50:08.154 Opening OSS audio device
'/dev/dsp'.
2005-05-18 09:50:08.203 Using XV port 64
2005-05-18 09:50:10.624 Using realtime priority.
2005-05-18 09:50:10.643 Video timing method: DRM
2005-05-18 09:50:10.645 Changing from None to
WatchingLiveTV
2005-05-18 09:50:25.212 Changing from WatchingLiveTV
to None
2005-05-18 09:50:25.215 Changing from None to None

Mythtv can still escape to the menu and exit - but
ends with a segfault.

The driver via_v4l doesn't seem to be installed or
available on my system - is it still required with
kernel 2.6.10 ? (Some HOWTOs seem to be out of date,
and Xine reports that it is using HW decoding)

Thanks for any help,
Bye - Joel.

 


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