Re: Debian sid tvtime problem
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 20:26:05 +0800, Rocky Ou wrote:
> Hey List,
>
> I'm a newbie to the debian world. I'm longing to set up my Dell inspiron
> 2200 laptop with debian sid on it with the capability of watching TVs. I
> aptitude installed tvtime and select PAL and China broadcast as it goes.
> After that my computer refused to move further and give me the following
> error log
>
> ###############
> lover@YUNNAN:~$ tvtime &
> [1] 6769
> lover@YUNNAN:~$ Running tvtime 1.0.1.
> Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
> I/O warning : failed to load external entity
> "/home/lover/.tvtime/tvtime.xml"
> 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.
> ################
>
> Can any of you give me some direction about how to make it work please?
Which graphics card and which driver are you using? Does the output of
"xvinfo" list YUY2? If YUY2 is listed, are you maybe running X with a
depth that is not supported for this overlay mode?
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Regards,
Florian
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