[mythtv-users] MythTV Hanging on Video Exit via xvmc-vld

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Mon Jan 9 20:05:03 UTC 2006


Sam Davies wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I have a EPIA SP13000 which was running FC4 with the RPMs from
> http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC4/RPMS/ with mythTV using via
> xvmc-vld mpeg2 decoding, and despite a few glitches, all was fine.
> 
> I then needed to update X, and did so with yum update xorg-x11\* (with
> the epia repositories set up as detailed). Although xine still seems
> to work fine with the mpeg acceleration, mythtv plays video fine with
> acceleration, however, when you try to exit watching a video, a half
> blue, half black screen is shown for a couple of seconds. The system
> then returns to a half-rendered myth screen, but the system seems to
> have hung.
> 
> I have tried getting the latest version of mythtv from svn and
> recompiling, but the same problem occurs.
> 
> I seem to remember reading about something similar about this on one
> of the mailing lists a while ago, but I can't seem to find it.
> 
> My X log doesn't seem register any errors at the point of crashing.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> sam
> 
> kernel: 2.6.12-1.1447 (with drm module)
> X: 6.8.99.903-0
> myth: from svn revision 8525

In developing MiniMyth <http://linpvr.org>, I encountered the same thing 
on the CN400 based motherboards. It appears that the problem started 
after the big Xv update in the unichrome drivers. As a result, have not 
upgraded X beyond 6.8.2 and I have not upgraded the unichrome drivers 
beyond the 20050815 snapshot.


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