[mythtv-users] cl266 - some issues on my side

[Rex Young]

> Hi,
> 
> I'm still working on my M10000 machine. I have some issues. 
> I've compiled XFree86 and mplayer, libsdl and xv, but when I 
> play a movie with mplayer it gives me a distorted image. 
> something like fullscreen colored snow. When I play a movie 
> with mythfrontend I have the same issue. Yet if I play it 
> with "mplayer -vo x11" then the image is correct.
> 
> Help, anyone got any experience with this on gentoo?
> 
> Jelle.
> 

Are you trying to use the binary X drivers?  I had similar trouble with
those before I managed to get the binary mpeg2 decoder stuff working.
(Unfortunately, I can't get ivtv to work at the same time.)  Using
xfree4.3.99.15 worked out quite well.  

have you seen this:

http://blade5.bvu.edu/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaHowto

-rex