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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I just changed the playback
profile to Normal and the shakiness problem seems to be totally gone. Woot </span><span
style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>
Thanks Steve! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’m new to MythTV, so I
have not familiarized myself with all of the settings yet. I’m not sure
why it defaulted to CPU+. My system can handle Normal without a problem. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve still got a small black
bar at the bottom of the screen (neglected to mention that in my first email).
I’m hoping to get rid of it. It shows up at the bottom, not on any other
side of the screen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’d prefer to try to get
the internal mythtv player to work before I try to use an external one like
mplayer per your suggestion…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Steve Peters - Priority Electronics<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Discussion about mythtv'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't play DVDs, video is shaky<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>My first problem is that Myth won’t play DVDs. If I go
to Optical Disks > Play DVD, the screen flashes to black and returns to the
Optical Disks menu. When I built my system a few weeks ago, one of the first things
I did was install myth and then mythplugins. I did not receive my DVD drive
from Pioneer until just a few days ago, so I had not installed libdvdread3. I
have now, and my drive will play encrypted discs in the default Ubuntu player,
but Myth still won’t. Do I need to reinstall mythplugins (and if so, how)
or is there something else I should do to troubleshoot this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Second problem is that TV through Myth is shaky. I am using
the Hauppauge PVR-150 tuner – my Comcast cable is hooked up to it. When I
go to watch TV, there’s this sort of flickering effect on screen, which I
don’t see if the cable is plugged directly into the TV. This flickering
is especially noticeable with graphics or when I use the controls to preview
what is on other channels. It’s not distorted enough that it makes
programming unwatchable, but is pretty annoying. The Myth menus themselves do
not exhibit this problem – i.e. if I’m in Manage Recordings,
or the full onscreen Program Guide, or Setup, there isn’t flickering.
It’s only when I’m actually watching TV. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’ve mystified as to why this is occurring and how I
can fix it. Ideas?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Andrew<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Andrew, I've
run into the same two exact problems you are having.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Problem 1:
go into Utilities, then setup, then TV Settings, then playback. Page 3 of 9 has
the playback profiles. Change it to something like Slim or Normal or whatnot
and test out TV playback. One of those should make your video work just fine.
If not, you can even fine tune those to get it to work.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Problem 2: I
still can't get myth to play DVD's using the internal player, so i changed the
settings so that mplayer plays the dvd's. To do that on your system, do this:
go into Utilities, then setup, then Video Settings, then Player Settings.
Change DVD Player Command to: "mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd -zoom
-quiet -vo xv %s" without the quotes. Press Finish, then try your dvd out
and see if that works. Wored for me. You may have to configure your remote to
work with mplayer. the OSD is not as nice as myth's, but at least you can watch
dvd's now.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-Steve</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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