Can you play a video (any ol' one will do) in mplayer or xine? Check to see if myth has XVMC enabled.. try toggling it on and/or off and see if that works.
If that's the case, check your video drivers.. something is probably fishy there. -=A Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I've built my first Myth box using 0.18.1 and a Gentoo 2.6.11 kernel. > Everything was working OK while connected to a regular 4:3 VGA monitor > running 1024x768 res. Liking what I saw, I decided to move the system > to my 38" RCA HDTV. > > I have a GeForce2 card. I'm using the S-Video out to one of the video > inputs on my TV. Using a plain vanilla config (posted below), I get a > picture that is fuzzy but readable. However after starting > mythfrontend, anytime I attempt to watch either live tv or a > recording, the interface appears to just "lock up". The machine still > responds via ssh connections from another computer but X and icewm are > frozen. Only a "kill" will free it. > > I have Googled for 2 days now but am no closer to understanding what I > need to do to get things going. Does it make sense that X would > "hose" just by switching to SVideo? Also, where can I begin to > understand what options I need in my xorg.conf file to clear up the > picture and stabilize X? I know SVideo will never be as clear as VGA, > but I expect it to be at least as clear as the SVideo that comes out > of my DirecTV box. Is that a reasonable expectation? > > Thanks, > > Drew > > ***Begin xorg.conf*** > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "X.org Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" > ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "extmod" > # Comment out dri per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml > # to use nvidia driver > # Load "dri" > Load "dbe" > Load "record" > Load "xtrap" > Load "glx" > Load "type1" > Load "freetype" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > #DisplaySize 340 250 # mm > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "TV" > ModelName "S-Video" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > BoardName "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" > Option "RenderAccel" "1" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M" > DefaultDepth 24 > EndSection > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
