[mythtv-users] LiveTV on HD channel?

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/5/06, Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:
>  >From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>  >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV on HD channel?
>  >
>  >On 03/04/2006 07:11 PM, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
>  >> > I'm able to get LiveTV to work on the SD channels over firewire. The
>  >> > image fills the 4x3 screen on my latop. On HD channels I get audio, a
>  >> > blue screen and an X bad param error on a shared memory segment.
>  >> >
>  >> > I presume this is because the size and resolution of the HD image.
>  >> >
>  >> > Do I need to tell Myth to scale the image somehow?
>  >> >
>  >What's the exact error?  If you show the messages in your frontend log,
>  >I could probably say for sure, but my guess is that your video card
>  >cannot handle images of the size required for HD.
>
> The exact error is
>
> VideoOutputXv Error: CreateXvShmImages(): XvShmCreateImage() failed to
> create image of the requested size.
>
> It's no surprise that it cannot display a 1920x1080 image on a 1024x768
> display. Still there should be a way to scale it. Xine manages to do it
> on the same hardware.

I watch 1080i using 720p output.

--
Steve