[mythtv-users] XVideo refresh bug?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 23:25, papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu wrote:
> 	OK... I just posted on my video board I built that converts from RGB/HV 
> to Composite/SVIDEO.  It works great and is excellent quality on the tvout 
> (readable text on xterms, etc).  The trouble is whenever using XVideo "-vo 
xv" 
> to play, I only get the top half of the video.  The resolution I'm using is 
> 720x480, at NTSC timings... so 720x480 at 29.97 Hz, interlaced.  
> 
> 	I discovered it with Mythtv cutting the bottom of the screen off
> (including the OSD).  If mplayer is used with '-vo x11' it work properly, 
but 
> with '-vo xv' it only shows the top half.
> 
> 	So, the question is two-fold:  Are there some adjustments on min/max 
> framerate for XVideo, and/or can mythtv be told to use some other video 
driver 
> (like x11 rather than xv) in the meantime?
> 

try this to run mythfrontend:

env NO_XV=1 mythfrontend

-JAC