[mythtv-users] blue screen issue
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Apr 18 14:39:50 UTC 2007
On 04/18/2007 08:21 AM, matt lutz wrote:
> I'm trying to use an old laptop with a busted LCD screen as a
> front-end only device. It's a p4 (2Ghz). I loaded FC6 onto it and
> most things seem to work okay. Unfortunately when trying to watch
> live tv or recorded programs, all I see is a blue screen. All of the
> menus & preview video is fine.
Your video drivers only support Xv output on the first display (as do
pretty much all of them--ATI, NVIDIA, ...). Therefore, the /right/
answer is to tell X /not/ to use the LCD (which becomes the first
display). Set up X to ignore the LCD and use /only/ the monitor. This
means, a default X configuration won't work.
> When I try to watch a recorded video with mplayer, the same thing
> happens. However, if I do an "mplayer -vo gl [filename]" it plays
> fine. I'm assuming the two are related, and it's the xvmc
> acceleration that's breaking things. I started myth using "NO_XV=1
> mythfrontend" and the video did play back, but it was pretty choppy.
NO_XV means no Xv. Granted, without Xv, XvMC is impossible, so it does
disable XvMC, but you /need/ Xv support.
> The laptop has an ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility graphics card. Is there
> anyway to tell myth to use the equivalent of "-vo gl" option in mplayer?
There's no way that you want to use.
Mike
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