[mythtv-users] 0.17 + HD-3000 = "Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it."

Alan Hagge ahagge at wbfa.com
Thu Mar 31 15:54:57 UTC 2005


I'm using MythTV 0.17 (from ATrpms) with a pcHDTV HD-3000 card and the 
dvb drivers (version 2.0 from pcHDTV's site).  I followed directions 
from various guides and believe that I have things configured correctly, 
but if I attempt to view live TV using the HD-3000 card, I get no video 
and the following errors:

    X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
      Major opcode:  141
      Minor opcode:  14
      Resource id:  0x1ba
    2005-03-29 21:56:23.549 Couldn't get the color key color, and we
    need it.
    You likely won't get any video.
    2005-03-29 21:56:23.760 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
    2005-03-29 21:56:23.774 Enable DPMS
    2005-03-29 21:56:23.781 Using protocol version 14
    2005-03-29 21:56:23.851 Disable DPMS
    2005-03-29 21:56:28.861 taking too long to be allowed to read..
    2005-03-29 21:56:33.862 taking too long to be allowed to read..
    2005-03-29 21:56:38.863 taking too long to be allowed to read..
    2005-03-29 21:56:38.863 Took more than 10 seconds to be allowed to
    read, aborting.
    (repeat ad nauseum...)

I'm using the latest nVidia drivers (1.0-7167) for my GeForce 6800GT/AGP 
and have made sure that GLX is configured and loaded properly (bzflag is 
a GREAT test case!).  I've tried both with and without XvMC acceleration 
turned on...same result.

Has anyone else seen this problem and been able to get around it, and if 
so, can you please post your solution?

Also, a couple more questions for anyone that might have an answer 
(please respond to any that you know about):

    * The HD-3000 card does both SD (NTSC) and HD (ATSC) reception.  I
      _believe_ that there's only one tuner, though, not two...is that
      correct (that's too bad)?  Has anyone been successful using a
      single HD-3000 for both NTSC and ATSC in MythTV?  If so, can you
      enlighten me as to your MythTV setup, specifically the Capture
      Card settings?

    * The latest nVidia cards (at least the 6800 and 6600 that I just
      bought) advertise "MPEG _encode_ and decode support" (see
      http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce6_techspecs.html under
      PureVideo).  Does anyone know of the ENCODE support has been
      looked at in the Linux environment?  Might it be a way to do
      MPEG-2 encoding for NTSC tuner cards (such as the HD-3000) which
      don't have built-in hardware encoding?  Pointers gladly followed...

Thanks,

Alan



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