[mythtv-users] Black screen with sound

[Stephen Atkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:30 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Black screen with sound
>
>
> Stephen Atkins wrote:
>
> >Xv drawable is looking like the problem.  I have no problems with
> getting MythTV
> >to work as long as I don't use xine/mplayer/tvtime at all.  Even using
> >xine/mplayer from with in Myth makes it so I can't watch TV (black
> screen).  I'm
> >running Gentoo with 2.4.26 kernel.  Just wondering if anyone out
> there has had
> >this problem and how I might go about fixing it.
> >
> >
> Now we're getting somewhere.  From this description, it sounds like your
> Xv colorkey is giving you problems.  Try running:
>
> xvattr -a XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY -v 1
>
> after using one of these programs.  It should "reset" the stuff that
> (your version of Myth) is expecting to be set.  Xine doesn't clean up
> after itself--but is not required to according to the Xv API.
> Previously it (and most other programs) did, so Myth was written to
> expect a "clean slate."
>
> The CVS version of Myth fixes the colorkey problem.  Note, also, that
> you can specify an option for xine (and probably the other programs, as
> well) to have it automatically paint the colorkey for you.  In
> .xine/config add the line
>
> video.xv_autopaint_colorkey:1
>
> You probably have a section like:
>
> # autopaint colour key
> # bool, default: 0
> #video.xv_autopaint_colorkey:0
>
> in there now.  I suggest adding the line right after this.   It will
> work anywhere, but you should only have it defined once (the commented
> out line that's probably in there doesn't count).
>
> Mike

Thanks for the advice.  I was also poking around in the config trying out
different sound options (trying to get 5.1 which now works great) but I noticed
also that xine was doing and auto select of the video driver.  Once I set that
to xv as the default things started working better.  But then using the right
click/settings and putting the check on the autopaint colorkey fixed everything.

Strange thing is this wan't an issue under Slackware 9.1 which I was running
before Gentoo.  Now on to my remote problems.  But I'll post that in a different
thread.  Thanks for you help.

Stephen