[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #5594: starting mythfrontend for second screen gives black-video-screen

Markus Schulz msc at antzsystem.de
Sat Aug 2 14:56:10 UTC 2008


Am Samstag, 2. August 2008 schrieb Michael T. Dean:
> On 08/02/2008 05:48 AM, MythTV wrote:
> > #5594: starting mythfrontend for second screen gives
> > black-video-screen
> >
> >  Starting mythfrontend with:
> >  # mythfrontend -display :0.1
> >  _from_ display 0.0 gives the gui but only black video screen.
> >  starting with:
> >  # DISPLAY=:0.1 mythfrontend -display :0.1
> >  works. Looks like the parameter -display will not be used for the
> > xv- screen.
>
> That's a driver issue.  Nearly all Linux video drivers provide Xv
> implementations that work only on the first display.  There's nothing
> Myth can do about it.

nope, thats a mythtv issue. cause i'm using this way since years and xv 
is possible on booth screens, as i wrote it works with DISPLAY=:0.1.

there was changed something for the videoout-code since 17xxx version.

-- 
Markus Schulz


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