[mythtv-users] Re: Watching Recordings on TV instead of PC Monitor

[Curtis White]

On 11/14/05, Curtis White <soaro77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It appears now I have hit another new problem I can't seem to figure out.
>
> I have the PVR350 card with DirecTV going to the tuner of the card. I
> have recorded several shows. When I go to play them back (Media
> Library -> Watch Recordings) it plays it back to my PC monitor instead
> of the TV. I have the options setup under Utilities/Setup -> Setup ->
> TV Settings -> Playback to use the PVR350's TV out / MPEG decoder. The
> device is set to /dev/video16 and I have the TV audio through PVR350
> only box selected (I can use the TV remote to adjust the volume). I
> also have the Enable OpenGL vertical sync for timing box selected. As
> I understood it, that is all I needed in order to watch my recordings
> on the TV. But for some reason it isn't working. It is playing them on
> my PC monitor.
>
> When I go to Watch TV, it plays it on the TV just fine. This only
> happens when I want to play back my recorded shows.
>
> At one point this worked because I watched one show when I first got
> everything setup. But now for some reason it isn't working. I'm
> wondering if something kicked in when I rebooted that made it stop
> working. Anyone have any ideas what I can do to get it back playing on
> the TV screen?
>

Nobody has any ideas? I don't even know where to start looking. I feel
I've checked every possible setting I could find. I don't even know
how MythTV knows where to play the recorded files. Is there someplace
to tell it to use /dev/fb1 instead of /dev/fb0 when playing back
recorded files?