[mythtv-users] Can watch TV through mplayer but not mythtv

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 03 August 2003 12:53 pm, Ellen Spertus wrote:
> I've been following Jarod's directions for setting up a PVR-[23]50
> system (http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-pagae.php?pageName=rh9pvr250).
> I've nominally finished the installation but appear to have some
> configuration problems.  I can watch TV through mplayer at the shell but
> not through mythtv.
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> How do I tell mythtv to give mplayer the argument "vo=dga"?  I specified
> it under "Video Settings", but it's not clear to me that's used for live
> TV.  Does mythtv use /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf?

MythTV doesn't use mplayer.  You need to get a working video card that 
supports Xv for video display.

Isaac