[mythtv-users] Just a two-lines playback...

[Andrea Giuliano]

Paul Gallaway wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Andrea Giuliano <sarkiaponius at alice.it> wrote:
>> Everything else that deals with graphics and sound works perfectly on my
>> PC, so I really can't figure out what this could be!
> 
> Just a data point here for you. I'm running Debian Lenny amd64.
> Migrated from older hardware and had some problems with the mythtv
> binaries from debian-multimedia and have moved onto another repository
> just to get recording working again. Now I am having stability
> problems and am considering compiling my own (or have corrupted RAM,
> haven't quite figured it out yet).
> 
> However, I am not seeing the playback issue you describe. What
> repository are you using? What videocard driver is installed? What
> driver is defined in xorg.conf? Is it every video source? Have you
> tried mplayer? Same problem with livetv (sounds like it)? Does flash
> video work (e.g. youtube.com)?

Thanks for your kind answer.

I'm using the debian-multimedia repository. I didn't know there were 
other repositories for multimedia stuff, I'll take a look.

Currently I'm using the UseFBDevice option in xorg.conf, but I also 
tried with intel and i810 drivers, same results.

The problem affects mythtv (recordings and livetv), ogle and xine, but 
not mplayer, ffplay and totem. Flash movies work like a charm (I watch 
them in the browser, both Epiphany and Iceweasel).

Today I made a little step forward: using xine (whose GUI allow me to 
control settings) I noticed that if I set "Video / 100 %" I can see the 
movie, though very much enlarged as if the zoom was 200% or even 400% 
(hard to say).

This sounds very strange to me. Even trying other settings it's still 
impossible to view a movie as it is with mplayer and other players, but 
I can't figure out why xine behaves this way. I'm sure I could do the 
same I did with xine with mythtv too, but mythtv's GUI is out of 
control, so I don't know I to do the above trick.

Anyway many thanks and best regards.

PS
I'll try to compile the sources, too.

-- 
Andrea