On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:04:53PM +0000, Ben Edwards wrote: > Have managed to get my mythtv box to scan channels and previously > managed to watch live tv with mplayer however now when I either try to > play live TV or watch a previously recorded video the screen goes > blank and the box seems to hang (well I cant do ctl+alt+f1 etc. to get > another console).
My desktop machine started doing that after I upgraded from xfree86 to xorg. I could still watch the archived shows using mplayer but myth causes the box to lock up so hard it won't even accept a ping. I think the problem is a device driver incompatibility as xorg is lagging behind xfree86 in that department. Specifically, my box has a Radeon 9600 which is explicitly not supported (yet) by the xorg ati/radeon driver. The mplayer command line allows you to specify which driver to use for output, so I can select a non-accelerated driver and watch shows at a lower frame-rate or in a smaller window. I can only assume that Myth is seeing the detected hardware and calling on a feature that isn't implimented.
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