Ok some slight problems.
I can run xine -pfhq -auto-scan dvd
in xterm and it runs fine,
however if i put the same command in the dvd play command line and run it in mythdvd, it doesn't work and says there is no such plugin to play dvd or something to that effect.
Also, sometimes xine plays in black and white.
And after playing it also sometimes makes live tv and recordings black and white.

Could someone also repost the mplayer command, but that wasn't working when i tried it in the begging from inside myth also, i haven't tried in xterm yet.

I have a celeron 2ghz, 384 mb ram, 6 gig hard drive runs the operating system, 60 gig for recordings, a sis 315 video card with tv out, pvr 250, i am using ximera to have the screen on monitor and tv, but tv and dvd only plays on tv the main screen, which xv runs on.

Any help would be appreciated.

might want to install the binary sis drivers.

they can be found here there is a debian repository, so you can add a line to the sources.list and use apt to install them.

this thread discusses many of the driver options including forcing xv to whichever screen you want.

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I have the drivers from thomas winishhofer, who has written the sis drivers. I also have the force options he wrote in my xf86config-4 file. I don't know. My main problem is that xine doesn't run from mythdvd command line, but does from command line in xterm

well if it runs one way and not the other, it sounds like a permissions problem. by default mythtv is run by the mythtv user, unless you have changed that. What user are you runing it as from the comand line?

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You're right i'm running it in su in xterm. So how do i change the permisions on the dvd drive?

Now i feel really stupid for not thinking of that.

Is this a common thing ? I have exactly the same problem. The DVD runs as su with xterm but not under mythtv. I will be waiting on this answer this is the final piece to my configuration.

well do a ls -l on /dev/dvd and see what user and group it has. I think it will have user root and group cdrom. you can as root run "adduser mythtv cdrom" and it should put the mythtv user in the cdrom group you'll have to logout and back on to get that to take affect. if it tells you that mythtv is already in cdrom group you will need to make sure that the dev has rw permissions for the group.

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Here's how to check this really quickly:

Here you can see that both /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd are linked to /dev/scd0 and that it has the proper group ownership and permissions. Next we make sure that mythtv belongs to that group, and finally we check that belongs to other relevant groups as well. Got it?

thanks tjc I would have posted examples, but my box is currently a bastardized version of R5 alpha and my examples would most likely have been missleading.

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LOL what do you mean bastardized??? =)

well lets see different kernel, different media players, different mythtv, I've more or less gutted it and put in different stuff for various reasons some technical, some just fiddling.

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i see.. give the man a jeep wrangler, he puts a chevy motor and a gmc bumber gaurd.. some people are never happy

yea i did it a little different. I chmod'd user mythtv read and execute rights to /dev/hdd (my cdrom). That worked.

As far as the black and white with dvd and stuff, if i run the sisctrl and if i change the hue it goes back to color and then i just set it back and it works. The dvd runs a few times in color (like quit and then rerun) and it goes back to black and white and i just change hue again. So i've just been running sisctrl all the time, pain but works.

One last thing, my screen tilts inward upwards on either side like:
/ \ like that, not as pronounced but a bit, so i've stretched the screen with sisctrl to go beyond the screen so i don't notice it, but like one to two letters are cut off from the bottom third down. Like when i'm in the watch recordings screen. Maybe i just need a new tv out card. sigh.

Not sure if your black and white problem is related to the black and blue problem I was having but according to xine's website ....



Adding that line in my XF86Config-4 fixed my problem.

once you've scaled the video off the screen with your tvout options you should be able to reel the mythtv interface back in with the overscan option, in this case set to negative to make it underscan.

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