[mythtv] Additional video out

Ivor Hewitt ivor at ivor.org
Mon Mar 8 04:22:37 EST 2004


On Monday 08 March 2004 08:05, Simon at the Threshold wrote:
> Lo there,
>
> I'm in a situation where my mythfrontend falls over when playing back or
> watching tv from my nova-t dvb-t cards where a stream error occurs.
> Whilst I'm quite glad the backend rarely falls over when this happens
> (unless the channel cannot be locked) I've not had much joy in my
> attempts at fixing this in the frontend.  Although as a workaround I use
> xine to playback the nuv files without problem (well ok a few flashes on
> the screen) but it survives.
>
> I was wondering what would the be technical chalenges implementing a
> xine-lib/mythtv video-out/audio-out module?.  I've had a look at some
> existing videoout classes and they don't appear to be rocket science but
>   I'm not sure from my code-surf how mythtv does its audio?
>
> Apols if this is an entirely dim idea!
>

Why not just post the backtraces for the crashes and get the bugs fixed? :-)

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