tvtime problems, XVIDEO, yuy2

iAlta · 10-14-2007, 12:46 PM

I'm not quite sure if this is a software problem, I think it is.

I can't get tvtime working, when I run it the window appears and then disappears.

output of 'tvtime -v'

Code:

$ tvtime -v
Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/magnus/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
cpuinfo: CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, family 15, model 2, stepping 9.
cpuinfo: CPU measured at 2799.690MHz.
xcommon: Display :0.0, vendor The X.Org Foundation, vendor release 70200000
xfullscreen: Single-head detected, pixel aspect will be calculated.
xfullscreen: Pixel aspect ratio on the primary head is: 453/464 == 0.98.
xfullscreen: Using the XFree86-VidModeExtension to calculate fullscreen size.
xfullscreen: Fullscreen to 0,0 with size 1024x768.
xcommon: Have XTest, will use it to ping the screensaver.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Window manager is Metacity and is EWMH compliant.
xcommon: You are using metacity.  Disabling aspect ratio hints
xcommon: since most deployed versions of metacity are still broken.
xcommon: Using EWMH state fullscreen property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state above property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state below property.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Displaying in a 768x576 window inside 768x576 space.
xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.

*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
*** driver.  If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
*** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
*** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
*** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
*** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
*** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.

As you can see I need XVIDEO or YUY2 or something, I don't know what any of them are.
I have a ATI grafics card(Radeon 9600), and a MSI tunver card.

The funny thing is that I have used tvtime on the same computer, with the same TV-tuner card and same version of Ubuntu. But after a reinstall I did some time ago, it didn't work.

blackhole54 · 10-14-2007, 02:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iAlta

The funny thing is that I have used tvtime on the same computer, with the same TV-tuner card and same version of Ubuntu. But after a reinstall I did some time ago, it didn't work.

I'm stabbing in the dark here, but is it possible you are using a different driver this time? Maybe a free driver versus a proprietary one?

iAlta · 10-15-2007, 10:27 AM

You are correct, uninstalled propriatary drivers, and it worked, reinstalles propriatary drivers, and it didn't work...