On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:41, Adam Felson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:56 -0500, Eric Webb wrote: > > On Saturday 12 February 2005 08:28 pm, Adam Felson wrote: > > > You're using a relatively old version of mythtv -- from the looks to me, > > > the middle of november 2004. I was using that for a while and saw > > > lockups where it would never display frame 1 of a video stream. After > > > 0.17 looked something like stable, I moved my backend and the m10000 > > > frontend to the CVS version and everything is now working like a champ. > > > > Well, I didn't think it was the root problem, but I gave it benefit of the > > doubt and compiled 0.17. Same result as before. > > > > > For settings.pro, I'm using XV output. I left the mpeg-2 decoder > > > related stuff commented out, and enabled native lirc and alsa. > > > Everything else was left alone. For /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it's pretty > > > much as the epiawiki and via areana howto's instruct. > > > > I left settings.pro alone (stock).. we'll try XvMC accelleration later on. > > I > > did some looking, and I feel pretty good about my xorg.conf now. And, > > yeah, > > I've been through epiawiki and via arena... but I'm still clueless about > > where to go from here. > My experience is that xvmc isn't worth the bother. With xv (xvideo, > nonaccelerated frame buffer output), I never use more than 60% CPU and > never miss a frame. > > Just get the xorg cvs, go to xc and do a make World and then a make > install.
This is referencing FreeBSD or *BSD right? > > If you run gentoo, trying to anyway. > you need to avoid gentoo's xorg implementation at all > costs. They moved things around and if you install xorg's cvs version > on top of it, it won't work. Right now, all I've tried is to use gentoo's ebuilds. I've tried xorg-x11-6.8.0 and xorg-unichrome (ebuild from epiawiki or someplace like that) and right now compiling xorg-x11-6.8.2 On all of them X11 bomb'ed out on me for some reason. I can't get mplayer to play any files at all. Worst of all is it will hang the whole box. > I did a basic gentoo build, build the xorg > cvs, and then added a reference > to /etc/portage/profile/morepackage.provided. Can you tell me more about this? I'm still trying _very_ hard to figure it out. I've got some experience with CVS, but I have no idea how to get it all compiled and to get it to be installed in the "correct" location. > > > > > To recap: I can fire up the front end, see menus, EPG, but when I try to > > view > > video -- live or recorded -- I get a blank screen and the console locks up. > > > > If I telnet in, I see frontend complaining that it times out waiting for > > free > > video buffers. So let's say that I compile MythTV without XvMC, and I'm > > running X.Org 6.7 with the included "via" driver. Is this recent enough? > Don't. Just compile it with the XV output. Leave the xvmc junk > commented out. Do you mean compile mythtv as per below?? [ebuild N ] media-tv/mythtv-0.16 +X +alsa -arts -cle266 -debug +directfb -dvb -lcd +lirc +mmx +nls -nvidia +opengl +oss +xv 0 kB I guess I should enable cle266? and I don't see any options for xvmc. For Mplayer, there is the xvmc option but not xv. > Again, just use XV out and ignore the unichrome stuff. The M10000 > doesn't need it. Right now, I'm not even thinking of going mythTV. I just want to get the stuffs to compile and _work_!!! I've managed to get things working under FrameBuffer but for some reason, it won't scale to fullscreen. All I get is native res. My turn to ask for help :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 20:28:50 up 26 min, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.38,
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