[mythtv-users] No video on frontend

Magnus Larsson magnus at vista.se
Thu Jan 6 20:03:57 UTC 2011


Thanks!

Libvdpau was already installed, so switching to the VDPAU slim profile 
solved it.

Best,


Magnus


2011-01-06 05:10, Frank Phillips skrev:
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Magnus Larsson <magnus at vista.se 
> <mailto:magnus at vista.se>> wrote:
>
>     Hi!
>
>     I have a Thinkpad T61p laptop, running Ubuntu 10.10, on which I've
>     installed a mythfrontend (ubuntu package). Problem is that I get
>     nothing but a black screen when watching live TV or recorded
>     programs. Audio works, but just at black screen.
>
>
> Quadro FX 570M is a VDPAU-supported card. You may need to install 
> libvdpau and then set the VDPAU Slim playback profile. The card only 
> has 256M ram (512 is preferred for VDPAU), but maybe there is a BIOS 
> option to share extra.
>
>
>     2011-01-05 17:22:38.872 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17
>     Video Texture'
>
>
> I don't know why using Xv on nvidia would result in a black screen.
>
>
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