[mythtv-users] mythvideo and input issues

Kent Williams kent2 at optusnet.com.au
Tue Sep 16 01:05:00 EDT 2003


I am getting the same problem, let me know if you work out what is going
on!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Shields [mailto:mythtv-users at alan.shields.name]
> Sent: Monday, 15 September 2003 9:55 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] mythvideo and input issues
> 
> Using the latest debian packages (unstable) for mplayer (mplayer-686,
> specifically), and the mythtv unstable packages provided by
> http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian and wang-fu.
> 
> Everything works great except when I play something with mythvideo.
> mplayer comes up and begins to play, but no hotkeys work. xterm -e
> doesn't help. In fact (and this is very odd), if I just have mythvideo
> execute an xterm session I cannot type anything into the new window
> created, not even if I click the window or hover the mouse over it.
> 
> I am using twm for a window manager, and the recommended twm script by
> Monty Walls.
> 
> If I allow the movie to play all the way through, everything goes back
> to myth, and keyboard input works fine. I can find no error messages
> anywhere, all seems to be working well.
> 
> Anything I can do to provide better diagnostics? Any help out there?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan Shields
> 
> PS: great job with MythTV guys, it works very well.



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