Can't watch TV in Mythdora 4
Hi, I just upgraded to Mythdora 4, and was wondering if anyone else had the same problem.
Basically, the problem is that when I click "Watch TV" in MythTV, I get a black screen, then half a second of audio from that channel, then nothing. The hard drive light is working, but there is a black screen and no audio. I cannot exit from this at all, not with Esc, not with my remote, not with Ctl-Alt-Del or Ctl-C. The only thing I can do is reset my computer. When I try to change playback options such as deinterlacing, or mpeg2 decoder, I get the same problem every time.
I have a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with 512 MB RAM
nVidia Quadro 55 video card
DVICO Fusion Lite capture card
This was working just fine in MythDora 3.2. I didn't do anything different in the install process. Does anyone know anything about this?
An easy thing to overlook is
An easy thing to overlook is the capture card setup in mythtvsetup It lists your capture card type, but defaults to a V4L driver regardless of the card. Just be sure that you didn't leave that to the default setting.
This is normally an
This is normally an incorrect setup in mythtvsetup or your using the wrong video driver version.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
Thanks for the quick
Thanks for the quick reply.
I have run mythtvsetup about 50 times (on Knoppmyth and Mythdora 3.2), and I have it down pat. It was working just fine before.
But, if there is a sensitive option in Mythdora 4, please let me know where I can start messing with options.
As far as the video driver, I have installed nVidia driver 9755. First I just used whatever driver was installed when I installed Mythdora - that didn't work, so I ran the nvidia driver 9755 install that I downloaded from nvidia.com. Not only did that not work, the system wasn't able to start the X server on bootup, and had to completely rewrite my xorg.conf file. Is there somewhere else I should be looking to mess with driver settings?
Just to let you know - you
Just to let you know - you are not alone. I have exactly the same problems but with an old FX5200 card. I have tried all the drivers available in mythdora 4 and none of them allow me to watch tv in mythtv. Some work fine with mythdora and I can watch DVDs but nothing works with mythtv. BTW - I ran mythtv fine with fc6 so it must be something in the setup of mythdora.
Are you able to play DVDs ok? If so, would that not suggest that the problem is with the capture card drivers rather than the graphics card?
That's Odd
I can play back HD content on a back/frontend machine (XP2500, 768MbDDR) with no hesitation using an FX5200.
The options I used, on install (where you press enter) linux resolution=1024x768 and during setup I used the legacy driver, not the new one. I also chose KDE for the desktop (but Gnome works fine).
Playback is Via standard xVMC and smooth w/ 45% CPU usage for HD content.
Re: Thanks for the quick
As far as the video driver, I have installed nVidia driver 9755. First I just used whatever driver was installed when I installed Mythdora - that didn't work, so I ran the nvidia driver 9755 install that I downloaded from nvidia.com. Not only did that not work, the system wasn't able to start the X server on bootup, and had to completely rewrite my xorg.conf file. Is there somewhere else I should be looking to mess with driver settings?
You shouldn't have to mess with any driver settings, but take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see if there's any indication what's going wrong. Supposedly, the quadro nvs 55 is supported by the 9755 driver, but you may want to try 9631 and/or 7184 as well...
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Jarod Wilson
Well, have you given any
Well, have you given any thought at all to try another driver version since MythDora comes with 4 different Nvidia versions? This can be done in MythDora Tools under resetup menu. Only 2 are listed there but the others are on the install disk.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis