Comments on: Nearly fully usable MythTV box now! http://www.zen.org/2005/05/02/nearly-fully-usable-mythtv-box-now/ The thoughts, ideas, habits, and interests of a sub-culture. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:25:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Oliver http://www.zen.org/2005/05/02/nearly-fully-usable-mythtv-box-now/#comment-8585 Oliver Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:13:42 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=314#comment-8585 So. How did it know what the NTL channel numbers were? :S Oli So. How did it know what the NTL channel numbers were? :S

Oli

]]> By: SDU http://www.zen.org/2005/05/02/nearly-fully-usable-mythtv-box-now/#comment-3752 SDU Fri, 13 May 2005 19:09:36 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=314#comment-3752 The following works well for using mplayer with mythfrontend for me: ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -alpha 0; mplayer -vo ivtv ; ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -alpha 255 This temporarily makes the fb (which is where X is, and is overlayed on the tv out) invisible while mplayer plays directly to the ivtv driver. Of course, this requires you compile mplayer with the ivtv patch. I use that for both dvd and video playback, although today, my audio started falling 2 seconds behind the video *sigh* Good Luck! The following works well for using mplayer with mythfrontend for me:

ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -alpha 0; mplayer -vo ivtv ; ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -alpha 255

This temporarily makes the fb (which is where X is, and is overlayed on the tv out) invisible while mplayer plays directly to the ivtv driver.

Of course, this requires you compile mplayer with the ivtv patch.

I use that for both dvd and video playback, although today, my audio started falling 2 seconds behind the video *sigh*

Good Luck!

]]> By: Justin Mason http://www.zen.org/2005/05/02/nearly-fully-usable-mythtv-box-now/#comment-3438 Justin Mason Mon, 02 May 2005 21:23:44 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=314#comment-3438 I've put up copious doco at http://taint.org/wk/BuildingFreevo btw, you may want to read it -- at least just to see what I did about the AVI-playback problem ;) BTW those pulsing/scanning lines sound a lot like phase problems, where the decoder box isn't putting out signal in the correct timings. that would cause strange patterns to scan across the screen, at regular speeds. I’ve put up copious doco at http://taint.org/wk/BuildingFreevo btw, you may want to read it — at least just to see what I did about the AVI-playback problem ;)

BTW those pulsing/scanning lines sound a lot like phase problems, where the decoder box isn’t putting out signal in the correct timings. that would cause strange patterns to scan across the screen, at regular speeds.

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