[mythtv-users] XvMCTex Init failed

Brian Phillips abitlater at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 02:03:04 UTC 2008


On Jan 24, 2008 9:16 AM, Brian Phillips <abitlater at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>

ok, I got the pic-in-pic to work somehow?  but can't change channels inside
the frontend - must use ivtv-tune, but this means I can't record tv shows...
any ideas?

-- 
Regards,
Brian
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