[mythtv-users] forced to use xv?

Carl Fongheiser carlfongheiser at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 21:59:19 EST 2005


On 11/29/05, Travis Osterman <tosterman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When watching live tv and recordings, does myth use xv or the mplayer
> settings from the videos => player => settings page?
>
> The reason I ask is because I have mplayer working with '-vo x11' but
> '-vo xv' gives me funky artifacts on playback.  Mythvideo seems to use
> the settings by live tv and recordings seem to ignore them.  I have
> also tried adding the settings to .mplayer/config to no avail.
> Basically, I am wondering if I need to spend my time getting xv to
> work so I can watch my recordings or if there is another mplayer
> options area I missed somewhere.  Thanks for the help.


MythTV uses XV, although you can turn it off with an environment variable.
(NO_XV).  However, it would be a really good idea to get XV working, as it
helps performance a lot.  FYI, MythTV proper doesn't use mplayer or mplayer
settings at all.

Carl Fongheiser
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