[mythtv-users] Changed monitor, no more playback...

[Ma Begaj]

2009/3/15 andrea <sarkiaponius at alice.it>:
> Hi!
>
> I've been using MythTV for many months without troubles, but last week my
> monitor has broken, so I got another one. I'm running Debian 5.0, and
> changing the monitor had definitely no bad effects, except for MythTV
> playback: Watch TV and Watch Recording just give a black screen, and after
> many seconds, sometimes even more than a minute, I only can hear small
> pieces of audio, and sometimes a very ugly video.
>
> What could it be? I tried reconfiguring xorg to match the new monitor
> (which, actually, is not than new...), but nothing happened, so I got back
> to the old configuration, which works perfectly (I can play all games that
> need accelerated graphics, for instance).
>
> As you probably guess, recordings are perfect: I can watch them with MPlayer
> or Torem without problems. It's just MythTV that has some problem.
>
> Any hint would be very appreciated.
>

check your mythfrontend logs. if there are no logs, start mythfrontend
on the shell with "-v most" to see the error.