ATSC TV on Cambridge Linux computer

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> writes:

    Dan> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:56:29AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
    >> 
    >> I didn't manage to configure MythTV at all.  The configuration
    >> program took over my whole screen, and I found it hard to
    >> navigate, and I couldn't get to a browser window to get advice
    >> while I had the window open.  If the real program interface is as
    >> unfriendly as the configurers (both front end and back end), I'm
    >> not sure I want to bother.  Is there a magic word for at least
    >> telling it to be in a window, and not full-screen?

    Dan> -geometry should work. 800x600?

Doesn't seem to.  I said: 

        mythtv-setup -geometry 800x600 &

and got the whole screen.

    Dan> The setup menus assume you are an expert working on a TV with
    Dan> a remote control, and have no good mouse support. The actual
    Dan> program interface assumes you are a random user with a remote
    Dan> control, and has no mouse support :)

Maybe I can deal with that if I ever get it set up.

    >> Too many video packets in the buffer: (110 in 8502907 bytes).
    >> Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
    >> For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
    >> 
    >> I don't find the -ni option helps with this.  Does this mean I
    >> need better hardware?  I have a year-old AMD Athlon(tm) 64
    >> Processor 3500+ system, with a gigabite of memory.  I was hoping
    >> that would be good enough.  Or do I need to download more mplayer
    >> codecs?

    Dan> I run an Athlon XP3500+ with 1 GB of RAM; no problems like this.
    Dan> I think you need different codecs.

Any ideas for where I would find them?

I found an FAQ about this in mplayer,
<http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#id2554844> and none of
the options they suggest seem to help.  Could I need a smarter
video card?  I'm currently using just the one on the
motherboard. According to xorg.conf this might be a  Radeon Xpress
200.

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