<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I had to modify the xmamerc file and it worked fine after that. </blockquote><div><br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>Mary,<br>><br>>Try running the xmame cmdline by itself and you should see the
<br>>problem. The cmdline is in your error message.<br>><br>>rgds,<br>>andrew<br>><br>>On 12/27/05, Mary Strimel <<a href="mailto:mstrimel@comcast.net">mstrimel@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>> hi,<br>
> I compiled and installed the latest mythgame plugin on my Ubuntu 5.04<br>> system. When I try to start an xmame game, the screen flashes once and<br>> returns to the game menu. The error I can decipher from the frontend log is
<br>> "MameRomLocation not set in mythgame-txt", but I DID set my ROM location<br>> properly in the mythtv setup screens, and I cannot find a file called<br>> "mythgame-txt" anywhere on my system. (I already followed the instructions
<br>> to disable the joystick option under mythtv as described in the docs, so I<br>> don't think that's the problem). There are a couple other error-ish things<br>> from the log that I copied below.<br>> What next?
<br>> thanks,<br>> Mary<br>><br>><br>> XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't open:<br>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Iulius/game-ui .xml<br>> XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file<br>> MythThemedDialog.o
: something is requesting a screen update of zero size. A<br>> widg et probably has not done a calculateScreeArea(). Will redraw the whole<br>> screen (i nefficient!).<br>> MythThemedDialog.o: something is requesting a screen update of zero size. A
<br>> widg et probably has not done a calculateScreeArea(). Will redraw the whole<br>> screen (i nefficient!).<br>> MameRomLocation not set in mythgame-settings.txt, using<br>> default./usr/games/xmame -rompath /roms -history_file
<br>> /var/lib/mythgame/history.dat -hiscore_directory /<br>> var/lib/mythgame/hiscore/ -hiscore_file<br>> /var/lib/mythgame/hiscore.dat -skip_disc<br>> laimer -noskip_gameinfo -fullscreen -noartwork -noautoframeskip -scale
<br>> 1 -noant<br>> ialias -notranslucency -noanalogstick -nowinkeys -nograbmouse -joytype<br>> 0 -samp les -volume -16 -nocheat<br>> /usr/games/xmame -rompath -lr "" 2>/dev/null<br>> 2005-12-26 03:35:
31.911 Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:6543">127.0.0.1:6543</a> (try 1<br>> of 5 )<br>> 2005-12-26 03:35:31.918 Using protocol version 15<br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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</a><br>><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 24<br>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:22:43 +1100<br>From: Michael Fox <<a href="mailto:fox.michael@gmail.com">fox.michael@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: [mythtv-users] Quick question about channel logos..
<br>To: Discussion about mythtv <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:7fbb8bf90512272322i5d728f24i3b20edda162a745f@mail.gmail.com">7fbb8bf90512272322i5d728f24i3b20edda162a745f@mail.gmail.com
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>Hi,<br><br>It appears the channel logos I declared in the mythtv-setup for each<br>channel can only be seen on the frontend who runs on the machine with<br>the master backend.
<br><br>All other frontends in other locations dont show channel logos. Does<br>anyone know what setting has to be changed so that the other frontends<br>also honour the fact I want channel logos to be show to which I have
<br>declared in the setup.<br><br>Thanks<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 25<br>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:50:06 +1000<br>From: Johan Venter <<a href="mailto:johan@vulturest.com">johan@vulturest.com
</a>><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Hardware (video and audio card)<br> questions, differences and features?<br>To: Discussion about mythtv <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:43B243AE.6050005@vulturest.com">43B243AE.6050005@vulturest.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Chad wrote:<br>> Hello!<br>><br>
> I'm looking for an easy-to-use website that will explain the<br>> differences of the nvidia cards to me. MythTV says I need a Geforce 4<br>> or better to do XvMC, but I've got an MX440 and it barely (nearly<br>
> unusably) does it. I am looking for a faster/better/newer card and<br>> want to know the difference in the 5200, 6200, 6600, GT versions of<br>> those, the 4000...<br><br>I use the SVideo out on an MX440 and had little luck with XvMC in
0.18.2<br>(the fixes release), but am having far more luck with the latest SVN -<br>it's totally watchable and lowers my CPU usage quite significantly (to<br>the point where HD channels used to be unwatchable, but now only
<br>ocassionaly skip with a 'pre-buffering pause').<br><br>> I'm looking for a card that actually works (well) in linux/mythtv with<br>> it's Digital Coax output. I have yet to actually be able to get<br>> anything to play through my digital out and have my receiver pick it
<br>> up as a Dolby Digital sound source (when it's a HD recording with DD<br>> audio).<br><br>Believe it or not, I'm using the AC97 onboard audio on a KT600 chipset<br>mainboard through the SPDIF out.<br><br>All I did was enable IEC968 output in alsamixer, turn IEC968 playback
<br>all the way *down* (it seems to work in reverse?), and pointed Myth to<br>use alsa:spdif as the output device.<br><br>For mplayer, I use a command line similar to:<br> mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv -ao alsa:device=spdif -ac hwac3,
<br>(NOTE: extra ',' at the end is required, tells mplayer to fallback to<br>other codes if it can't access hardware ac3, or the stream is not ac3 at<br>all)<br><br>> The best I've gotten is a loud repeated 'beat' (which is my best
<br>> description, I would guess it's an analog version of the digital<br>> pulse?) which I quickly mute or kill. I've tried/used a cmipci, an<br>> emu10k1, and onboard via-82xx, all through very new versions of ALSA,
<br>> with no avail.<br><br>That's it, my AC97 chipset uses the via-82xx driver.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Johan<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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