[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend freezes X windows when playing recording

[Andy Barr]

On 2/14/06, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/02/06, Andy Barr <ajbarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm helping a friend setup Mythtv and seem to be very close to getting
> > it to work however when I try to watch recordings mythfrontend freezes
> > X windows.
> >
> > I can play the recording using mplayer and the video and sound work fine.
> >
> > Here are some details about the setup.
> > Fedora Core 4 with all updates.
> > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz
> > PVR150,
> > Nvidia Gforce2MX video card
> > see end of post for output from lspci command.
> >
> > Output from mythfrontend -v playback
> >
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:07.087 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:08.197 nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work,
> > unimplemented in this driver?
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:08.199 DRMVideoSync: Could not open device
> > /dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:08.203 RTCVideoSync: Could not set RTC frequency,
> > Permission denied.
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:08.204 Using audio as timebase
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:08.204 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:08.204 Refresh rate: 11765, frame interval: 33366
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:11.158 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:14.358 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
> > 2006-02-13 23:11:17.559 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
>
> What video timing options have you got selected in the frontend's
> setup? Have you tried using the nv driver?
>
> Nick

Nick, Thanks for the input.  Your comment got me thinking there might
be some issue with the Nvidia driver.  I removed the nvidia rpm's and
downloaded and installed the Nvidia driver directly from the Nvidia
website.  After installing Nvidia's *.run file I was able to update
the xorg.conf file correctly and I can now playback recordings in
mythfrontend.  I suspect I had the nvidia rpm's from atrpms.net
installed wrong.  I will reinstall and see if the rpm's work.

Thanks for the help,
Andy