On Wednesday 10 Sep 2008, John Allman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Sander Sweers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > It starts on the pvr-350 tv-out, right?
>
> Yup
>
> > The via stuff is for the onboard video card the drm is what makes
> > direct rendering (accelerated opengl for example) possible. Mythtv for
> > example can use opengl to render it's ui.
>
> I don't understand how the onboard video card is involved at all? Are
> you saying the card could be used for acceleration even when it's not
> being used for output? This feels unlikely. I suspect my problems are
> somehow related to however the onboard graphics card and the via
> driver is involved - surely playback should only involve the ivtv
> driver?
>
> > The xdriver only supports xvideo and no direct rendering like the via
> > onboard graphics card does. My best guess, and this is a bit out of
> > scope for this list ;-), is that the media player software is trying
> > to use direct rendering for playback on the via card. Can you try and
> > use mplayer with switch: -vo xv or -vo x11? Does this also cause the
> > oops?
>
> When I get home, I can try using mplayer directly and bypassing X to
> see how I get on?
>
> I realise we're getting slightly outside the scope of this list, but
> if you could still help me out that'd be great - I really am quite
> stuck...

Since the error in your log was triggered by mythfrontend, it may be worth 
checking the playback settings. Make sure that OpenGL vertical sync isn't 
selected & video renderer (under playback profiles) is set to xv-blit.

-- 
Ian

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