[mythtv] [mythtv-users] How to choose the XV port for mythfrontend

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 13:02:45 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 12/18/2007 06:33 AM, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 13:30:31 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >   
> >> On 12/17/2007 07:04 AM, Tino Keitel wrote:
> >>     
> >>> how can I choose the XV port that mythfrontend uses? The intel driver
> >>> supports Textured Video and Video Overlay. Mythfrontend chooses
> >>> Textured Video, maybe becuase it is the first in the list. However, as
> >>> I still have problems with tearing video, I'd like to try the Video
> >>> Overlay port. Can I do this without patching the source?
> >>>       
> >> Nope.  http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/14479 .
> >>
> >> That means that the fix is in SVN trunk (that part of mythtv-vid was
> >>     
> > Err, I already use trunk, but I get this message in the frontend log:
> >
> > Chromakeying not possible with this XVideo port.
> >
> > And then the frontend still uses xv port 73, which is the textured
> > video XV adator. If I understand the above changeset right,
> > mythfrontend should skip the textured video adaptor, as it doesn't have
> > an XV_COLORKEY attribute.
> 
> You may want to ask Daniel Kristjansson or Stanley Kamithi on the -dev
> list as that's something they want to work properly when 0.21 is
> released.  To help them verify that the changeset is in -trunk, you may
> want to reference [14555] (
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/292806#292806 ),
> which merged [14479] (
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/289080#289080 ) to
> trunk.

OK, carrying this over to -dev.

Regards,
Tino