[mythtv-users] Adding to Media Library manually?

[Michael T. Dean]

David Blevins wrote:

> I checked and .vob is setup as using the default player.  So I  
> checked out the command for playing and it looks like the path to  
> mplayer is wrong.  (running a knoppmyth box)  So I symlinked it:
>
>   ln -s /usr/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer
>
> Then I got:
>
>    
> ======================================================================== 
> ==
>   vo: X11 running at 720x480 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" =>  
> local display)
>   It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
>   Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/ 
> video.html#xv!
>   See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try - 
> vo x11
>   Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
>
> I'm using the TV-OUT on my PVR 350, so I can see why it didn't work.
>
>   /usr/local/bin/mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo x11 %s
>
> And it did work.

I highly recommend (an NVIDIA video card instead of the PVR-350, or--if 
you're mind is set on the PVR-350--) installing John Harvey's updated 
ivtv driver for X.  It supports Xv, so you get much better video at much 
less processor usage.

Mike