Clayton wrote:
I'm working on two MythTV systems on virtually identical hardware (main diff is one has an ATI 1250 vid card and the other an ATI 3200 vid card).
System one is running openSUSE 11.0 32bit (KDE 3.5) with the latest packman builds of MythTV plus libdvdcss etc. System twp is running openSUSE 11.1 32bit (KDE 3.5) with the latest packman builds of MythTV plus libdvdcss etc.
There are some distinct differences between MythTV on the two installs. On System one, when setting up recorded video, I have a choice of entering the IMDB video number or typing the video name to search on. On System two, there is no option to type the vodeo name.
More importantly though, system two is having issues with DVD playback using the internal MythTV player. We've also tested on xine, and MPlayer with varied results...
- MPlayer playing a DVD. MPlayer can open the DVD, but there are no nav menus, and if we try to change chapters, MPlayer crashes. - Xine. Xine will open all DVDs, but randomly some are played with scrambled video. No idea why... livdvdcss, libdvdnav, libdvdread, w32codecs etc are all installed. - MythTV internal player. Sometimes it works fine, and on some DVDs it will lock up MythTV solid, and others it will try to play the DVD, and the DVD nav menus are not visible. They are there, but displayed black on black.
On system one using openSUSE 11.0, we see none of this behavior... it simply works.
Has anyone else ran into similar probs? Any ideas or tips on how to get this working better? We can roll back to 11.0 on teh second machine I suppose, but would rather keep 11.1 running on system two if we can.
C.
I would suggest looking at hardware first. Try swapping out Memory and Video cards for starters. Hard lockups are usually (not always) HW issues. Manne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org