[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend freezes X windows when playing recording

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 08:54:25 UTC 2006


On 14/02/06, Andy Barr <ajbarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm helping a friend setup Mythtv and seem to be very close to getting
> it to work however when I try to watch recordings mythfrontend freezes
> X windows.
>
> I can play the recording using mplayer and the video and sound work fine.
>
> Here are some details about the setup.
> Fedora Core 4 with all updates.
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz
> PVR150,
> Nvidia Gforce2MX video card
> see end of post for output from lspci command.
>
> Output from mythfrontend -v playback
>
> 2006-02-13 23:11:07.087 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
> 2006-02-13 23:11:08.197 nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work,
> unimplemented in this driver?
> 2006-02-13 23:11:08.199 DRMVideoSync: Could not open device
> /dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory
> 2006-02-13 23:11:08.203 RTCVideoSync: Could not set RTC frequency,
> Permission denied.
> 2006-02-13 23:11:08.204 Using audio as timebase
> 2006-02-13 23:11:08.204 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
> 2006-02-13 23:11:08.204 Refresh rate: 11765, frame interval: 33366
> 2006-02-13 23:11:11.158 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
> 2006-02-13 23:11:14.358 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.
> 2006-02-13 23:11:17.559 Timed out waiting for free video buffers.

What video timing options have you got selected in the frontend's
setup? Have you tried using the nv driver?

Nick


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