[mythtv-users] Mplayer TV out issues.

[Brandon Tatton]

This is an on-board video I810 chipset. The Motherboard it a BKI810.

Thanks again ahead of time for the help here.

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 16:34, Mike Hicks wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:26, Brandon Tatton wrote:
> > I have a number of issues most of my own making and I am sure some out
> > of ignorance. However I do have a question about the TV out with Myth
> > and the dvd option. If I have a Monitor (standard computer monitor)
> > plugged in things are very happy. However when I go to tv out and try to
> > play a dvd I get audio and correct aspect, however I get no video just a
> > blue screen. I am assuming it is a command option issue.
> 
> It would help if you could tell us what sort of video card you're using.
> 
> But, from general experience, many video cards won't display overlayed
> video on the secondary display in Linux.  From what I've seen, the
> hardware is usually capable of it, but nobody has given the Linux
> developers access to appropriate documentation (much of this has to do
> with NDA issues, and apparently everyone thinks that all Linux users are
> pirates, even if we just want to show our desktops on our TVs)
> 
> The main workaround is to not use video overlay, but do software scaling
> instead.  Unfortunately, there's a performance penalty for doing that.