[Openchrome-users] SP8000e HDTV playback

[Jesse Guardiani]

Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> On Friday 19 May 2006 04:40, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I finally have an SP8000e. It's very slick, but I can't
>> seem to get HDTV playback working in mythtv. SDTV works
>> fine via VGA (TV OUT turned off and unplugged), but HDTV
>> 1080i playback with myth's internal player just yields
>> a blank bluish screen. I'm running minimyth 0.19-12, and
>> here's what I see when I tail the Xorg log as I play
>> back a 1080i show:
>>
>>     
> Hmm it should work. But I haven't had time to try hdtv from mythtv. Worked 
> fine from mplayer/xine last time I tried.
>
> Couple of things to check. I believe there was a change made to myth recently 
> for nvidia cards I think so that it would only use xvmc for sdtv and drop 
> back to xv for hdtv. Proably worth checking your mythfrontend log to see what 
> it's doing.
> If you've got hdtv playback working in xine it sounds like there's a myth 
> problem somewhere.
> I'll try and get myth running with hdtv and take a look.
>   

OK, thanks. I get the feeling that I'm going to have to get my hands 
dirty with this one.

I'm also getting semi-frequent XvMC lockups on my SP8000e hardware. The 
machine stays
responsive and I can telnet in (minimyth uses telnet, oddly enough), but 
mythfrontend
locks up during playback. I can restart X and see/move the mouse cursor, 
and see
mythfrontend log from the command line, but mythfrontend never starts 
back up again.
I'm not sure if this last issue is due to graphics driver issues or 
something else though.

Another issue I have is that when I press the power button on the 
chassis, minimyth
starts a shutdown procedure, but that results in the motherboard getting 
into a messed
up state where it won't boot again until I've unplugged the power first. 
Using the reset
button seems to be much more reliable, not to mention faster, so this 
isn't a huge deal.

I haven't checked to see if I can do a BIOS upgrade yet, and I noticed 
that the minimyth
kernel is 2.6.15.7 with PREEMPT enabled. I've had massive troubles with 
hardware drivers
and preempt in the recent past. But I hesitate to jump to conclusions as 
I don't have any
previous experience with mini-itx hardware.

To make matters worse I have no idea what version of the openchrome code 
minimyth
is using. I checked the Xorg log, but I didn't see a module version number.

Are these boards typically this sensitive?

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at guardiani.us