[mythtv-users] Blue tinge / preview size

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/13/2008 03:18 PM, mythtv.users wrote:
>> On 03/13/2008 05:55 AM, mythtv.users wrote:
>>     
>>> I've just upgraded to 0.21 and noticed that the video preview window
>>> isn't
>>> right, all the people are blue!
>>>
>>> Does anyone else see this, is it just some strange combination of
>>> factors that only I have?
>>>       
>> Your MythTV was built without MMX.  If you compiled yourself,
>>     
> Nope, been there, bought the T-shirt, now I just use packages.
>   
>> If you're using a packaged version of Myth, you need to tell your
>> packager more details of the setup you're using because he needs to
>> adjust the configuration so it will work on lots of different machines,
>> but so it also has MMX.
>>     
> It's a P4 so I'd hope fairly common... I've emailed the packager anyway.
>   

The thing is that packagers have to mess with things like --cpu, --tune, 
and --arch to get packages that work on lots of different machines, so 
just like self-compiling and using those switches can break things, ...

> FWIW it's Suse 10.3 with packages from
> http://packman.links2linux.de/package/mythtv/54558

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/318827#318827 includes 
a link to a post that shows how to verify the issue and shows that it 
just happened with Ubuntu's 0.21-fixes packages (and happened with 
almost all packages in 0.20).

Mike