Bob wrote: >Thanks to everyone who replied. I thought I would post an update even though >I am dead in the water due to the hard drive crashing. > >1) I recorded a show. The file was created, but trying to watch the show >resulted in the same blank screen crash that I have gotten originally >entering LiveTV. I think this points to an nvidia driver issue particular to >the myth internal player. (mplayer works fine). > > Because MPlayer doesn't use OpenGL vsync.
>2) I was very optimistic about Brian's suggestion of removing the "load glx" >from the xorg.conf. I commented it out, and even restarted the machine (not >just X) but the problem persisted. > > NVIDIA's drivers are auto-loading the GLX module. You either need Myth 0.18.1 (or below) compiled without OpenGL support or Myth 0.18-fixes or SVN (which has a runtime setting in frontend settings to disable OpenGL vsync). In a "short" time, though, upgrading to 0.19 will give you this option (and 0.19 may be ready before your new hard drive arrives... (fingers crossed) ;) Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
