[mythtv-users] Mythtv/gentoo hangs when playing live or recorded video

[Ben Edwards]

Its a nVirda MX 4400 I have.  Do you recon going to XFree86 is the way
forward or did you solve it another way?

Ben

On 11/11/05, chris at cpr.homelinux.net <chris at cpr.homelinux.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:04:53PM +0000, Ben Edwards wrote:
> > Have managed to get my mythtv box to scan channels and previously
> > managed to watch live tv with mplayer however now when I either try to
> > play live TV or watch a previously recorded video the screen goes
> > blank and the box seems to hang (well I cant do ctl+alt+f1 etc. to get
> > another console).
>
> My desktop machine started doing that after I upgraded from xfree86 to
> xorg.  I could still watch the archived shows using mplayer but myth
> causes the box to lock up so hard it won't even accept a ping.  I think
> the problem is a device driver incompatibility as xorg is lagging behind
> xfree86 in that department.  Specifically, my box has a Radeon 9600
> which is explicitly not supported (yet) by the xorg ati/radeon driver.
> The mplayer command line allows you to specify which driver to use for
> output, so I can select a non-accelerated driver and watch shows at a
> lower frame-rate or in a smaller window.  I can only assume that Myth is
> seeing the detected hardware and calling on a feature that isn't
> implimented.
>
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