[mythtv-users] X / xv overlay problems

Derek Meek thekazan at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 03:12:49 UTC 2005


i don't see anything overtly wrong.. probably a problem with your nvidia
driver options - i'm not familiar with the nvidia drivers though

Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:

> Oops, that should have been obvious.  xorg.conf file is below.  My
> card is an nVidia 440MX with SVIDEO out.
>
> #BEGIN
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "X.org <http://X.org> Configured"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> #       InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>         RgbPath      "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/modules"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "dri"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "xtrap"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "v4l"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> #Section "InputDevice"
> #       Identifier  "Mouse0"
> #       Driver      "mouse"
> #       Option      "Protocol" "auto"
> #       Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> #EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Option     "HWcursor" "true"            # [<bool>]
>         Option     "NvAGP" "1"                  # <i>
>         Option     "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
>         Option     "RenderAccel" "true"         # [<bool>]
>         Option     "Overlay" "true"
>         Option     "CIOverlay" "true"
>         Option     "ForceEmulatedOverlay" "true"
>         Option     "OverlayDefaultVisual" "true"
>         Option      "HorizSync" "30-50"
>         Option      "VertRefresh" "60"
>
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
>         BoardName   "NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>         Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
>         Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Card0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     1
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     4
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     8
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     15
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     16
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> #END
>
>
> On 9/16/05, *Derek Meek* <thekazan at gmail.com
> <mailto:thekazan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     x.org <http://x.org> config please
>
>     Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
>
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I'm having trouble getting my Xorg configured properly...it's
>     probably
>     > something simple, but it seems to have something to do with XV.  I
>     > must confess I know little about Xorg configuration.  I can't get
>     > mplayer, tvtime, xawtv, etc to run because they complain about not
>     > having overlay support.
>     >
>     > I'm using a PVR-500, 0.3.9 ivtv drivers.  I have at one point in the
>     > past gotten video out of the /dev/videoX devices, and I'm pretty
>     sure
>     > they work...I believe X is configured incorrectly.  I've included
>     > error output from each of the three programs below.
>     >
>     > For tvtime, my output is:
>     >
>     > localhost ~ # DISPLAY=:0.0 tvtime
>     > Running tvtime 0.9.15.
>     > Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
>     > Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
>     > xcommon: No window properties found for EWMH.
>     > xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.
>     >
>     > *** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your
>     video card
>     > *** driver.  If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
>     > *** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
>     > *** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the
>     experimental
>     > *** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
>     <http://gatos.souceforge.net/>
>     > *** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
>     > *** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.
>     >
>     > For xawtv, my output is:
>     >
>     > localhost ~ # DISPLAY=:0.0 xawtv
>     > This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.12-gentoo-r10)
>     > switching visual (0x26)
>     > /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
>     > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
>     > Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-
>     > *-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
>     > no way to get: 0x0 8 bit StaticGray
>     >
>     >
>     > And, here's a sample from mplayer:
>     >
>     > localhost ~ # mplayer /dev/video1
>     > MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
>     > CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino (Family:
>     > 6, Stepping: 2)
>     > Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
>     > MMX supported but disabled
>     > MMX2 supported but disabled
>     > SSE supported but disabled
>     > 3DNow supported but disabled
>     > 3DNowExt supported but disabled
>     > CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
>     > Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > 85 audio & 196 video codecs
>     > Setting up LIRC support...
>     > mplayer: could not connect to socket
>     > mplayer: No such file or directory
>     > Failed to open LIRC support.
>     > You will not be able to use your remote control.
>     > Playing /dev/video1.
>     > Cache fill: 18.75% (1572864 bytes)    MPEG-PS file format detected.
>     > VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  9600.0 kbps (1200.0
>     > kbyte/s)
>     >
>     ==========================================================================
>     > Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
>     > AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio:
>     48000->192000)
>     > Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2,
>     layer-3)
>     >
>     ==========================================================================
>     > vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!
>     > vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!
>     > VO XOverlay need a subdriver
>     > [gl] Using 4 as slice height (0 means image height).
>     > vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!
>     > vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!
>     > SDL: Initializing of SDL failed: No available video device.
>     >
>     ==========================================================================
>     > Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
>     > VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
>     > VDec: using Mpeg PES as output csp (no 0)
>     > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
>     > VO: [vesa] 720x480 => 720x540 Mpeg PES
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Brian
>     >
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