[mythtv-users] Problems using Mythvideo with TV out...

[Christian Hack]

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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Justin 
> The Cynical
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 August 2003 6:11 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Problems using Mythvideo with TV out...
> 
> 
> Since I was able to have it all work correctly when I started 
> everything
> from a xterm, I tried it.  Dropped in a divx file I have on a CD, hit
> play, and Bob's yer uncle.
> 
> For some reason, mplayer would not start up unless some time 
> of tty was
> involved in the launching.  It's happy now.
> 

I do know that mplayer spews out a huge bunch of info when playing file.
Particularly buffering messages like %0.00 which continually get
overwritten to provide a "realtime" update. Depending on where this data
goes, you can expect mplayer to take a while to get going since all that
data gets buffered somewhere blocking mplayer - I think.

Normally my mythfrontend dumps to a file to catch any possible
strangness. If I run mythfrontend from a telnet command prompt, running
mplayer via mythvideo takes much much longer to get going.

If mythfrontend and thus mplayer dump to /dev/null. It starts much much
quicker and doesn't generate massive logs either.

My 2c

CH