[mythtv-users] XvMCTex Init failed

Brian Phillips abitlater at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 14:16:52 UTC 2008


On Jan 23, 2008 9:31 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> On 01/23/2008 02:45 PM, Brian Phillips wrote:
> > Can someone help me figure out how to clear up this error that appears
> > in my mythfrontend log?
> >
> > 2008-01-23 14:41:16.369 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed
> > 2008-01-23 14:41:16.370 VideoOutputXv Error: Could not find suitable
> > XVideo surface.
> > 2008-01-23 14:41:16.370 VideoOutputXv: Falling back to X shared memory
> > video output.
> >                   *** May be slow ***
>
> Fix your display drivers.  You're either using drivers that don't
> support Xv or don't support Xv at the resolution of your videos or that
> aren't installed properly.
>
> For info on how to fix your drivers, we'll need to know what video
> card/drivers you're currently using.
>
> Mike
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last post error:
Here is the correct list of the drivers I was using yesterday, while setting
up mythtv

1) first one at 1600x1200
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.1

2) next at 1280x1024
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1)

3) final and current, at 1280x1024
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9700 PRO
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7276 Release

Sorry for top-posting last time :)

-- 
Regards,
Brian
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