[mythtv-users] MythTV (0.23.1) Front-end Logs User off When Attempting to Watch Recording or LiveTV

[John Baab]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Marc Randolph <mrand at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Robert Shields <rwshields at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am running Myth 0.23.1 on my backend and front-end (separate machines).
>> When I click "Watch TV" or select a recording to watch on my laptop (running
>> the frontend) the screen goes black (minus a flashing underscore ( _ ) ).
>> It then kicks me out to the Ubuntu (10.10) login screen.  I cleared out my
>> frontend and backend log files and attempted to watch a recording; I have
>> attached them to this email.  There seems to be something odd happening in
>> the frontend log file, but after googling, it is not clear to me what the
>> error means.
>>
>> The laptop is a dell Studio XPS 13 using the nvidia provided drivers.  What
>> is interesting is that I have another frontend, an ION board, which connects
>> and is able to watch tv/recordings fine.
>>
>> Any thoughts would be really appreciated!
>>
>> Frontend (Laptop) Info:
>> MythTV Version   : 26863
>> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-23-fixes
>> Network Protocol : 23056
>> Library API      : 0.23.1.201000710-1
>> QT Version       : 4.7.0
>
> Since 10.10 has been released, there have been a number of reports of
> this.  It appears to occur when using a vendor driver (Nvidia mostly,
> but I think there have been reports of non-Nvidia) along with using a
> MythTV profile that invokes XvMC.  Presumably the problem/bug is
> actually in the latest Xorg.
>
> Good luck,
>
>   Marc
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Try changing your playback profile to one of the VDPAU profiles if
your video cards supports it.  Otherwise try slim or normal.