[mythtv-users] Basic setup problems (XvMC, Lirc, EIT)

Petteri Matilainen pmatil at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 04:47:04 UTC 2008


On 7/22/08, Petteri Matilainen <pmatil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I browsed through recent list archives but no-one seemed to have
> similar problems. I'm running Debian Unstable with MythTV 0.21
> compiled from source. M/B: Abit AV8 with GF FX5600XT graphics card
> (AGP). Processor: Athlon 64 3500+. TV card: Nebula digitv PCI DVB-T.
> All problems are related to SDTV (no HD in Finland). Here they are:
>
>
> 1. DVB-subtitles? Is there no place else to configure them but
> mythweb? Or is it on by default? Because on one channel here in
> Finland, DVB-subtitles aren't visible (other channels do not use DVB
> subs).
>
> 2. Lirc. Mythfrontend says: "could not connect to socket: connection
> refused".
>
> 3. DVB radio channels cause Segmentation fault (frontend). Although I
> don't listen them much, it would be nice to have them working.
>
> 4. Frontend console filled with: "Audio: buffer underrun" Why?
>
> X is configured as 2 separate screens: 1 on my monitor and the other
> DVI->VGA adapter->scart RGB to my CRT 16:9 TV (720x576). There is some
> issues with aspect ratio switching: more specifically it's not
> automatic. When I force 4:3 AR in mythtv, AR is correct in TV, but
> when the commercials kick in, I get "letterboxing". And, when mythtv's
> AR is 16:9, on TV programs are letterboxed but commercials are "OK".
> I'm probably missing something related to AR but I've read every page
> I could find about it. I'd be happy to post my config files if needed.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Petteri Matilainen
>

Ideas anyone?


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