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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 class=641002021-11122008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andrew, I've run
into the same two exact problems you are having.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=641002021-11122008><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=641002021-11122008><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=641002021-11122008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>-Steve</FONT></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>