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

Stephen Robertson stephengrobertson at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 21:39:46 UTC 2008


> At 02:11 AM 3/12/2008, 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!
Made progress by changing the playback profile options so recordings
now playback correctly however whenever I exit from the watch
recordings screen myth segfaults.  Don't quite know how to proceed
from here.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Stephen


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