[mythtv-users] Black screen on new frontend during playback

Matt skd5aner at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 13:46:41 UTC 2007


On 4/22/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 04/22/2007 11:00 PM, Matt wrote:
> >    I just built a new frontend and everything is working fine except
> > playback.  I can see the menus, I can see the video previews, but when
> > I go to watch a recording or live TV all I get is a black screen -
> > which then turns windowed (I can see a border around it).  I can hit
> > escape and go back to the menu just fine.
> >
> > I'm using an nvidia card with the latest nvidia drivers.  opengl is
> > working for the painter.
> >
> > Any ideas where to start?
>
> Do you have a monitor and a TV hooked up to the video card?  Do you have
> X set up for both?
>
> Mike
>

Mike - I initially setup the box using a monitor (over DVI).  This
still showed the same thing - black screen during playback.  Then, I
moved the box to the living room and hooked it up to the TV via VGA
which showed the same results.

Where should I start to look?

Matt


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