[mythtv] VMWare and Mythtv is a no-go

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Jan 27 23:24:31 EST 2003


On Monday 27 January 2003 09:28 pm, tarek Lubani wrote:
> A quick check showed that vmware did not support XV.. xvinfo says that
> there are no adapters found.. As I understand (please prove me wrong),
> mythtv uses Xv exclusively, and that simply will not work with vmware.
> videos won't play. nothing will go.. Recordings and everything can be
> manipulated, but no TV can be watched...

There's really no reason why someone couldn't write another output method.  It 
just supports Xv currently because that's all I need it to support.

Isaac


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