[ivtv-users] Playback issues and kernel Oops with PVR 350

[Sander Sweers]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 22:39, John Allman <allmanj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:20 AM, John Allman <allmanj at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried playing a file using:
>
> mplayer -vo fbdev <file>

No this is not what I meant. Do start X and try to use xvideo. The
xdriver is build so that you can use xvideo instead of the plain
framebuffer.

> It played much better and didn't cause the traceback. However, it
> didn't play perfectly (the video was too slow and began lagging badly
> behind the audio) and gave me some sort of a warning about the cache.
> I'm guessing this is something that could be fixable and is unrelated
> but thought I'd mention it anyway.

Anything that uses the framebuffer direct will be horribly slow. So,
startx with no mythfrontend and run mplayer with switch -vo xv or -vo
x11.

Greets
Sander