[mythtv-users] 0.21 Not Viewable on VIA EPIA M10K

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Wed Mar 12 14:49:52 UTC 2008


Stephen Robertson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
>> Mache Creeger wrote:
>>  > I have tried all the playback options I can think of and either I get
>>  > a choppy video experience or I get mythfrontend crashes. Does anyone
>>  > have 0.21 playing recorded video on a VIA EPIA M10K and if so, how
>>  > did you do it?
>>
>>  Not that it is likely to help you in your situation, but I have it
>>  working in MiniMyth. It runs as well as MythTV 0.20 on my VIA EPIA SP8000E.
>>
>>  MiniMyth builds the openchrome xorg driver before building MythTV. As a
>>  result, the MythTV configure script detects the openchrome libchromeXvMC
>>  and libchromeXvMCPro libraries and enables XvMC-VLD support.
>>
>>  MiniMyth's MythTV 0.20 and trunk are patched so that when xvmc-blit is
>>  used and codec does not support xvmc-blit but does support xv-blit,
>>  xv-blit is chosen rather than the first in the codec's list (which is
>>  often opengl). As a result, MiniMyth is much less likely to fall back to
>>  opengl rendering and crash due to the bug in the unichrome Mesa driver.
> 
> I've not had a chance to do any investigation yet but I've upgraded my
> M10K from Minimyth 0.20b?? to 0.21b40 and am having the same problems
> with choppy, in fact not really playing at all, video and frontend
> crashes.  It had been working perfectly for months.  Really not sure
> where to start at all!

You need to set up a renderer that uses XvMC-VLD. You can find it in:

Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback -> Playback Profiles 
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