[mythtv-users] Sound and Playback issues 0.19

[White Joe]

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lichti
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White Joe wrote:
> The problems are turning out to come from different causes.  The sound
> issue was solved by getting a little sleep and realizing that I was
> using an audigy .asoundrc to  talk to an nforce2 audio system.  Duh.
> However, the mythfrontend still freezes immediately when I play either
a
> recording or LiveTV.  A serious freeze -- as in the screen goes black,
> the keyboard is ignored and a swarm of locusts infest my backyard.  I
am
> currently going thru the forum looking for similar issues, or ideas on
> what to trouble shoot.
>   
And mythfrontend -v playback,general,important says what, exactly?

Tom
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The sequence goes...
I start playing a recording and the screen goes dark.  Audio keep
playing (usually) until I hit esc (as with the log below) or I alt-tab
to another window.  At this point the keyboard and mouse are non
responsive and the screen remains black.

The log below is a result of 
mythfrontend -v playback,general,important > mythfrontend.log

2006-03-05 02:21:55.951 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(1):
UUAAuUULUUAUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUAA
2006-03-05 02:21:55.996 Broadcasting free space avail
2006-03-05 02:21:55.996 WriteAudio: Preparing 6144 bytes (1536 frames)
2006-03-05 02:21:55.996 audio waiting for space on soundcard: have 896
need 6144
2006-03-05 02:21:56.002 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames():
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAA -- done()
2006-03-05 02:21:56.002 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(1):
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAA -- done
2006-03-05 02:21:56.002 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(1):
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAA
2006-03-05 02:21:56.002 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames():
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAA -- done()
2006-03-05 02:21:56.003 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(1):
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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It looks as though the problem with the lack of video and subsequent
freezing lies in the xorg.conf.  Load "glx" in the modules section and
Driver "nv" in the DEVICE section don't seem to get along together.  If
I change the driver to "nvidia" then mythfrontend plays recording.
Loading just "nv" causes the front end to seize.

There are a lot of posts on the subject (which I am wading thru).  The
consensus seems to say "nv" good - "nvidia" bad.

Wish me luck

jw