ATSC TV on Cambridge Linux computer

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

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?

-geometry should work. 800x600?

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

> 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?

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

-dsr-


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