[mythtv-users] CLE266 Hardware Decoding

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 28 November 2003 12:30 pm, Mike Wood wrote:
> Hey gang,
>
> I've been running my frontend on a Nehamiah board for the past couple
> weeks, but without attempting hardware decoding.  I had to some time today,
> so I thought I'd give hardware decoding a shot.  I edited settings.pro and
> recompiled mythtv, but when I go to watch TV, the frontend crashes.  When I
> take a look at the frontend log, I just see this:
>
>       Input #0, mpeg, from
> 'rbuf://192.168.2.5:6543/mnt/media/Video/ringbuf2.nuv': Stream #0.0: Video:
> mpegvideo_via, 480x480, 29.97 fps
>         Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s
>       2003-11-28 12:11:27 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
>
> Other than recompiling MythTV, is there something else I'm supposed to do
> to get this working?

Try running as root.  Some stuff in libddmpeg requires root privs.

Isaac