[mythtv-users] Internal video player?

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Svante Olofsson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> First of all, thanks go to all devs that have made MythTV what it is!
>
> And then to the problem :)
>
> I have been using MythTV 0.18.1-r1 on an athlon 1500 (with a 2.6.14  
> kernel and
> Gentoo) for half a year, with no problems at all. I am using a usb- 
> dvb card
> for watching tv. I even got my wife to agree, that we had no need  
> for the old
> VHS anymore :)
>
> But, the update-demon got a hold of me, and I updated the system...  
> After the
> update (lots of stuff and mythtv 0.18.1-r2), I could no longer  
> watch live tv
> nor recorded programs (shows?). I got audio buffer overflow in the  
> logs, and
> found out that the cpu was running at just under 100 %. I had no  
> problems
> with cpu before the update.
>
> I can record programs with myth, and watch them with mplayer  
> outside of myth,
> without the cpu going over 15 %. I can also watch the device  
> directly with
> mplayer with the same cpu usage.
>
> So, can anyone give me any directions on what to look for? What is  
> myth using
> to play live tv and recordings?

You didn't mention what video/audio hardware you're using. If you're  
using an nVidia card with their (proprietary) drivers this could be  
your problem. Try not using GL, either comment out "load glx" in your  
X conf or re-compile mythtv without opengl support. This solved an  
identical problem for me.

If you're not using nVidia, then I have no idea :-)