[mythtv-users] Where's my Picture-in-Picture?

Kevin Ruland kruland at sunflower.com
Sun Jun 5 16:58:23 UTC 2005


Paul,

Thanks for the advice.  Apparently the magic setting is to turn off
viaXvMC unichrome support.  I'm guessing that unichrome can only decode
a single stream and myth doesn't support mixing software and hardware
decoders.

Thanks for the help.

Kevin



Paul Harvey wrote:

>Do you have XV enabled?  Not sure if it is required, but it might be.
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>On 6/4/05, Kevin Ruland <kruland at sunflower.com> wrote:
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>>I'll try to record two shows and see what happens.
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>>When I press "V" to enter picture in picture, the mythbackend.log file
>>says this:
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>>Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
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>>No PIP window appears.  All seems ok.  I can "N" to swap and a different
>>channel appears.  I believe that "B" allows me to tune the hiddent PIP.
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>>I'll try recording two shows today and see what happens.
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>>Kevin
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>>Paul Harvey wrote:
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>>>Can you record two shows at once?  What happens when you try PIP?
>>>What are you trying?
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>>>On 6/3/05, Kevin Ruland <kruland at sunflower.com> wrote:
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>>>>Hi all,
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>>>>I'm running Mythtv 0.18 from the gentoo ebuild -r1 on a system with a
>>>>PVR-500.  For a while (prior to various ivtv driver and myth/system
>>>>updates), picture-in-picture worked.  Now it doesn't.  I've been looking
>>>>in the logs and there isn't much in there that helps.
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>>>>Any advice?
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>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Kevin
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