[mythtv-users] I'm a mythtv failure

[Aran Cox]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:47:26AM -0700, Kelly wrote:
> I'm done. Three weekend, 50 hours and still no live HDTV that isn't jerky.
> 

When trying to decide if the capture is bad or if the plaback just
isn't working it's helpful to have another program to try playing back
the captures in.  mplayer supports xvmc playback.  Tryi playing your
captured files in mplayer.  To enable xvmc I had to do this on the
command line:

-vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc 

It seems that the version mplayer I am using tries to use libmpeg2 by
default but since libmpeg2 doesn't work with xvmc (just as in mythtv)
it would fail to play at all.  YMMV.