[mythtv-users] remote frontend 0.21 Desired video renderer not available

[Steve Smith]

On 19/03/2008, Oji John <ojiwankenobi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll take Door #3!
>
>  "MPEG2" is what mythfrontend reported.  I should have made it clearer
>  that I was quoting output from the remote mythfrontend.
>
>  Thanks for the feedback!!  --Oji--
>
>
>  On 19/03/2008, Oji John <ojiwankenobi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>          > FWIW, this remote frontend worked fine under 0.20.
>          >>
>          >> Remote and master are running same versions.
>          >>
>          >> On the remote:
>          >> VideoOutputXv: Desired video renderer 'xv-blit' not
>          available.
>          >> codec 'MPEG2' makes 'opengl,xshm,xlib,' available, using
>          'opengl' instead.
>          >>
>          >> Using "slim" profile on master frontend works just fine!
>          >>
>          >> Before encumbering this msg. with log dumps and a list of
>          contortions I've
>          >> tried on the remote, maybe someone has seen this and has a
>          generic trick to
>          >> solve the problem?
>          >>
>          >> Have read ticket #4792.  Will wait for next mythtv updates if
>          that's what I
>          >> need to do.
>          >>
>          >> Thx!  -- JC --
>          >>
>          >>
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>          > Oji,
>
>          > Are you sure you mean MPEG2? Not MPEG4?
>
>          > If MPEG4 a patch has been created for 4792... so either:
>          >   1) Apply the patch and recompile.
>          >   2) Recompile without opengl enabled (what I did).        OR
>          >   3) Wait until the patch filters into a fixed package....
>
>          > Cheers
>
>          > Steve
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Oji,
Actually if it is MPEG2 then 4792 doesn't really apply. What it's
saying is it can't find XV-BLIT i.e. XV doesn't seem to be working for
your X installation.
Maybe worth investigating the Xorg log files.

Cheers

Steve