[mythtv] Recent CVS changes => no video on screen

[Matthew Burnham]

At some point during this week, a change to CVS has stopped video
working for me. Well, I think it's a CVS change as far as I can tell,
probably in the last week, as I don't THINK I've changed any settings
and IIRC it went wrong after I did a cvs update. Has anyone else
experienced this, or is it just me? It seems like something is being
done (hard disk thrashing anyhow) when I run mythtv, but no picture on
screen. Though its been working fine under gnome previously, I took the
howto's suggestion to try KDE to no avail :(

Interestingly (perhaps), playback of the thumbnail of a pre-recorded
video in the playback screen is okay, but the full-screen video won't
play. I can't force the full-screen back to windowed with 'f' because
the window that would normally receive the 'f' is not displayed. Perhaps
it would be worth adding an option to allow windowed mode as a default,
either database or command line option?

I've had a play with something like "cvs diff '2 days ago' > diff.txt"
and trying to "patch < diff.txt" to get an earlier version to check
whether it is actually a change to the code or not, but my limited
knowledge of cvs and diff/patch doesn't strech this far. "cvs update -D
'two days ago'" just doesn't seem to do much (seems to hang) so if
anyone can suggest a cvs command that would give me code as of x days
ago, I'd appreciate it, as I can at least have a go at tracing down the
problem myself then.

I think it went wrong after a lot of the library files changed the other
day. Based on the first checkin on Wednesday breaking the build due to
StringSelectSetting name change (I updated then hoping the non-display
problem might have solved itself), it could be one of the ones below. I
can try it with code before these changes if someone could give me a
quick primer on how to use CVS properly :)

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Changes committed by ijr on Mon Dec 30 12:32:10 2002

Modified Files:
   in MC/libs/libNuppelVideo:
        XJ.cpp 
Log Message:
Patch from Bruce Markey to fix the aspect ratio stuff.

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Changes committed by ijr on Sun Dec 29 20:07:14 2002

Modified Files:
   in MC/libs/libNuppelVideo:
        XJ.cpp 
Log Message:
Fix the scaling of the current channel video in the epg.

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Mat Burnham