[mythtv-users] Remove preview from channel guide?

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 22:50:46 UTC 2007


On 4/17/07, Dave Phillips <family_of_phillips at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I feel like I've missed this somewhere, but is it possible to remove
> the preview window altogether from the channel guide? Currently, my
> SD frontend is, by feault, trying to tune to a HD channel, which locks
> up the frontend with "no free video buffers" messages. I'd like to be
> able to tune to another channel on this machine.
>
>
> It sounds like you have it set to bring up the guide automatically when you
> watch live tv?
> I am not sure how to turn off preview but a couple of ways I have gotten
> around this is by tying up the HD tuner on the backend box so the frontend
> will default over to a SD channel instead. Of course that doesn't work if
> you only have one tuner.
> I have also had limited success by not bringing up the guide automatically
> and quickly punching in another channel number before the frontend has a
> chance to try and render anything.
> Of course if someone has the real answer that would be cool as wel.
>

Well, it looks like the point is moot - I've turned off OpenGL, and
now I'm successfully showing HD scaled-down to a 800x600 TV-Out on a
Barton 2500+.


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