[opensuse] MythTV in openSUSE11.0 vs 11.1
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
I would suggest looking at hardware first. Try swapping out Memory and Video cards for starters. Hard lockups are usually (not always) HW issues.
Can't swap out vid cards... they are onboard vid on both machines. RAM is new, and been swapped once on the second machine. as a test. Both machines are mini computers setup as dedicated MythTV systems... very hard.. almost impossible to drop in a second video card. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Are you using the ATI drivers? I have various systems running the ATI drivers under 11.1 and they have issues to the point the systems are not usable. Same systems with 11.0 + ATI drivers don't have problems.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Are you using the ATI drivers? I have various systems running the ATI drivers under 11.1 and they have issues to the point the systems are not usable. Same systems with 11.0 + ATI drivers don't have problems....
Yes we are using the ATI binary drivers... performance with MythTV on the radeon driver is horrible.. more horrible than the fglrx drivers. That's interesting that there are probs with 11.0 to 11.1 using what I woudl assume is the exact same driver.... maybe a kernel thing? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Something in Xorg (I believe) changed from 11.0 to 11.1. That's why there were not 11.1 drivers for a while... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Andrew Joakimsen
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Clayton
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Manne Merak