[mythtv-users] No TV or Video with SVideo

James C. Dastrup jc at dastrup.com
Mon Jan 30 15:31:32 UTC 2006


>I finally got my video card to use the SVideo Out on my nVidia Ti4200. 
>However, although the GUI shows up as expected, when I play live TV or
>any type of video (like AVI), nothing shows up.  The screen is just
>blue.  It's not hung as I can hit escape to get back to the menu.  I
>tried searching the list first but wasn't able to locate anything that
>helped out.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  I'm attaching my
>xorg.conf file that I use for the SVideo.
>
>

Blue instead of video usually means that the video is being displayed
on another screen.  Common solution is to physically disconnect
any other screens you may have plugged in at the time X loads, since
most cards will detect these screens, even if you don't have them
defined in xorg.conf.
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