[mythtv-users] MythTV in Debian with Avermedia

[Alberto Rodriguez Galdo]

Your awnswer leaves me amazed, thank you very much, i'll try to do my
best to give useful info.

- I Have an Ati Rage 128 PRO AGP 4x
- I Use the Ati X driver
- The card hasn't got TV out
- I would say the screen is black
- I've been able to see .mov movies and streamed .asx files using xine
-V xv

I can't think in other useful info, only oen question, is needed to get
the xmltv file to see live tv?





On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 22:12, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 08:44 PM 9/24/2003 +0200, Alberto Rodriguez Galdo wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >    I've spent weeks trying to get MythTV up and running, without luck.
> >My system is a Debian Woody upgraded to Sarge so i use the dijkstra .deb
> >packages. I have a via 82cxxx sound card (those integrated in the mother
> >board) and an Avermedia Tv capture card, with a bt878 chip and I am in
> >Spain. I followed the howto to get it configured but i wasn't able to
> >get it running. I start mythbackend and then mythfrontend, when i try to
> >see live tv i am able to hear the sound, as it comes from the line-in,
> >but the screen is blank. I've executed this in all sorts of
> >configurations, kde, gnome, windowmaker, with spanish tv, us, etc... I
> >know my sound card works fine because i can hear mp3 in freeamp or xmms
> >wich uses /dev/dsp and i am able to see the tv using xawtv... I must say
> >i'm not using alsa drivers, i use the proper via driver from the kernel
> >itself.
> >
> >    So, the question is, ¿Does anybody in spain has mythtv running in
> >Debian Sarge? or even ¿Did anyone in spain got it running?
> 
> I can't answer your actual question ... I've used Sid, not Sarge, and I'm 
> not in Spain. But the problem you describe sounds like an X problem, 
> specifically the lack of proper support for xVideo in your X driver. So ...
> 
>          what video card?
>          what X driver do you use for it (some cards have several choices)?
>          what card output are you using (VGA? TV out?)
>          what does your "blank" screen look like (black? blue? snow?)
>          can you watch mpeg or DivX (or whatever) video on this hardware 
> using xine, invoked as "xine -V xv filename" (replacing filename with a 
> video file that xine can play)? Because xawtv used non-standard tricks for 
> video, xine is a better test of video and X than xawtv.
>          Is there anything unusual about your setup that you did not think 
> to mention?
> 
> In the past, I've had problem with via chipsets and OSS. Alsa worked better 
> for me. But if you're hearing sound in "live" TV mode, you are not having 
> the sound problems I encountered.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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