just as an fyi it says on myth 20 version releas: Menus are now drawn by MythUI <http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythUI>using OpenGL <http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/OpenGL>. This option can be enabled/disabled in the Appearance settings.
so theoretically you should only need to turn off menu drawing with OpenGL and then the ubutnutu howto should work On 4/25/07, Matt Andruff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
thanks for the great link. before they switched to open GL it also worked via frame buffer... check the ubuntu wiki here<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_hardware_pvr-350_TV-out>for more info on howto get the old packages to work I'll definitley have to tak a look at your method for making it work as I understand that the packages no longer support it. On 4/24/07, Ricardo Lugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Paul van Gerven wrote: > > Situation I'd like: mythtv (menu's, recordings, live tv etc) is always > shown on the tv. Does that require getting X to be displayed through the > 350's tv-out? > > > > Some people have tried getting MythTV to output directly to the > framebuffer using a special QT framework (Qt/Embedded & directfb?): > > > http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythTV_in_Framebuffer > > > But to my knowledge not been able to make it work 100%... > > > So, Yes, it does require X on the TV-out. > It works very well - you can then watch media in various different > codecs (XviD, etc) - but anything other than MPEG2 will require additional > CPU power. > > > - Rick > > > Matt Andruff wrote: > > I'm not sure what step of the howto you followed upto. It seems to me > you probably finished the whole thing.... > > Their are some different configurations I need to add to the howto. > > You can have your TV as the whole mythbox: > > You can have myth on a monitor and playback on TV. > > If you want to use mythtv to output to the tv and you want myth to be on > your screen, you do not need to make any changes to xorg.conf. Infact > you should undo any changes and I believe that will remove the black box > from your screen. > > If You dowant to get mythtv on the TV but right now I'm not sure if > that's what you want. > > You say "(that would require a driver that I did not install). " but I'm > not sure what driver that is are you talking about "ivtv-fb"? > > > On 4/22/07, Paul vano Gerven < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > No, I am not running X on the TV (that would require a driver that I > > did not install). X is displayed on my monitor, but a terminal, I think it > > is tty1, is displayed on my tv. The terminal stays there when I put MythTV's > > output on the TV. So I can see the TV-images around the edges, but most of > > the screen's surface is being blocked by the black square (=the terminal). > > > > Incidentally, when I try to follow the steps to actually display X on > > my TV (in Matt's link below), I get stuck in the first step. modprobe > > ivtv-fb does NOT results in the suggested entries in /var/log/syslog... it > > does not result in any entry. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Paul > > > > Matt Andruff wrote: > > > > so you have X on your tv out.(awesome) your just having issues with > > playbacK in Myth? Have you taken the step to enable playback on tv in > > Myth<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Feisty_hardware_pvr-350_TV-out#head-b95b766c73b58a224b1418e7d3a22d7ddad267bc> > > ? > > > > On 4/22/07, Paul van Gerven <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > I have been struggling to get my TV-out working on ivtv (installed > > > on Ubuntu Feisty). Mythtv works fine, so ivtv is installed correctly. (I can > > > use my 'other' TV-output which converts VGA to Composite. The quality of > > > this picture is acceptable, but not great; I know the 350's TV-out is much > > > better). > > > > > > I can give the following information: > > > > > > 1) As soon as I connected the TV-out cable to the 350 and the TV, I > > > got a black screen on the TV. This means it is sending a signal, because the > > > screen is blue when the TV is not getting any signal at all. > > > > > > 2) I live in Europe, and need a PAL(-B/G) signal. > > > > > > 3) I played around with some old (!) information from > > > > > > http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvOutPal and http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvOutHowto > > > > > > > > > which instructs what lines to add to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases (I > > > think thats the Ubuntu equivalent of /etc/modules.conf). Long story short, > > > some combination of lines (which I cannot remember and have not been able to > > > reproduce) gave a crystal clear TV-output with MythTV (which I set up to use > > > /dev/video16). However: no sound and no overlay (for example, when I > > > activated the program guide, it would not appear on the screen). > > > > > > I remember examining the output of dmesg and it seemed the lines I > > > was adding to aliases contained syntaxes that were not (or no longer) > > > recognized. Which line/command was the magic one to enable the TV-out, I > > > cannot tell. > > > > > > 4) I restored my original aliases file, but added > > > > > > install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb > > > > > > as suggested in > > > > > > > > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/IVTV_Install > > > > > > and updated the modules and rebooted. By chance I noticed some text > > > flashing on the TV while rebooting! Now, If I press cntrl-alt-f1 my monitor > > > goes blank and I see the terminal on the TV. Also when booting into recovery > > > mode, I see the messages floating by on my monitor until it hits ivtv0-fb, > > > after which the output switches to the TV. > > > > > > *In this situation, when I watch TV on MythTV, I get a black screen > > > with the terminal covering almost all of the screen. Only at the edges I see > > > a TV-picture. Also, still no sound. * > > > > > > 5) When I do: sudo rmmod saa7127, the tv-screen goes blue, as > > > expected. > > > > > > 6) Current output of dmesg: > > > > > > [ 16.543497] ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV > > > ==================== > > > [ 16.543500] ivtv: version 0.10.1 (tagged release) loading > > > [ 16.543501] ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.20-15-generic SMP > > > mod_unload 586 > > > [ 16.543503] ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug > > > info between > > > [ 16.543504] ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, > > > along with > > > [ 16.543506] ivtv: any module options, when mailing the > > > ivtv-users mailinglist. > > > [ 16.543793] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23415 based) > > > [ 17.215564] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 > > > bytes) > > > [ 17.237366] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 > > > bytes) > > > [ 17.464035] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 > > > [ 17.464037] ivtv0: Recommended firmware version is 0x02060039. > > > [ 17.472094] ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 > > > [ 17.540695] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 > > > [ 17.561657] tuner 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > > > [ 17.566192] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > > > [ 17.632573] saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @ > > > 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > > > [ 17.873437] saa7127 0-0044: saa7129 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver > > > #0) > > > [ 17.901274] msp3400 0-0040: MSP4418G-B3 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c > > > driver #0) > > > [ 17.901358] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (4 > > > MB) > > > [ 17.901473] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 > > > MB) > > > [ 17.901601] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB) > > > [ 17.901649] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM > > > audio (1 MB) > > > [ 17.901805] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio > > > [ 17.901825] ivtv0: Registered device video16 for decoder MPEG (1 > > > MB) > > > [ 17.901863] ivtv0: Registered device vbi8 for decoder VBI (1 MB) > > > [ 17.902132] ivtv0: Registered device vbi16 for decoder VOUT > > > [ 17.902152] ivtv0: Registered device video48 for decoder YUV (1 > > > MB) > > > [ 17.976424] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 > > > bytes) > > > [ 18.463544 ] ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, card #0 > > > [ 18.463552] ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV > > > ==================== > > > [ 18.490481] ivtv0-fb: Framebuffer at 0xf5510000, mapped to > > > 0xfa390000, size 1665k > > > [ 18.565743] ivtv0-fb: === Validated display mode === > > > [ 18.565745] ivtv0-fb: Display size 640x480 (640x480 Virtual) @ > > > 8bpp > > > [ 18.565746] ivtv0-fb: Display position 41,49 > > > [ 18.565747] ivtv0-fb: Display filter : on > > > [ 18.565748] ivtv0-fb: Color space : RGB > > > [ 18.590694] ivtv0-fb: === Display mode change === > > > [ 18.590697] ivtv0-fb: Display size 640x480 (640x480 Virtual) @ > > > 8bpp > > > [ 18.590699] ivtv0-fb: Display position 41,49 > > > [ 18.590701] ivtv0-fb: Display filter : on > > > [ 18.590702] ivtv0-fb: Color space : RGB > > > [ 18.614861] ivtv0-fb: Framebuffer registered on ivtv card id 0 > > > [ 43.551436] ivtv0-fb: === Validated display mode === > > > [ 43.551439] ivtv0-fb: Display size 640x480 (640x480 Virtual) @ > > > 8bpp > > > [ 43.551440] ivtv0-fb: Display position 41,49 > > > [ 43.551441] ivtv0-fb: Display filter : on > > > [ 43.551442] ivtv0-fb: Color space : RGB > > > [ 43.559209] ivtv0-fb: === Display mode change === > > > [ 43.559212] ivtv0-fb: Display size 640x480 (640x480 Virtual) @ > > > 8bpp > > > [ 43.559214] ivtv0-fb: Display position 41,49 > > > [ 43.559216] ivtv0-fb: Display filter : on > > > [ 43.559217] ivtv0-fb: Color space : RGB > > > > > > > > > > > > I am getting very close to a solution, but after many hours of > > > googling and reading I am kind of stuck here. The documentation on this is > > > mostly outdated, I feel. 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