[mythtv-users] TV Out Blue screen

Shawn slum at cox.net
Wed Sep 28 02:24:50 UTC 2005


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David Wasylciw wrote:

> Hey Folks,
>
> Quick question for you all, I can't seem to find an answer for this
> but I have a feeling there is some easy solution. I'm running myth
> 0.18 on gentoo with ivtv-0.2.0_rc3-r5 and all seems to be fine. The
> only problem I ran into was that when I first started using TV Out
> whenever I played a recorded video file all I got on the TV was a
> blue screen (and normal Myth screen shows up fine) but I traced
> that back to a problem with the ATI Driver pack I'm using. To fix
> that I modified the mplayer command to read -vo x11 instead of -vo
> xv. But, now that I finally got the live tv bits working I'm having
> the exact same problem with the live TV when output to the TV
> except I can't find any similar command to modify. Any hints on
> what I can change to get it going?
>
> One other question, on my video out certain colour patterns seem to
> go green from xvid files (in particular things like police car
> sirens)? Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks, David
>
By Blue Screen I'm sure you're referring to the Blue Line that's on
the top and left of the screen.  
Try running:

/usr/local/bin/xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0

Before you start the frontend.  Good Luck.

- -Shawn

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