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List:       kwintv
Subject:    Re: [Kwintv] kdetv 0.8.7+0.8.8 not working
From:       Dirk Ziegelmeier <dziegel () gmx ! de>
Date:       2005-10-13 18:22:54
Message-ID: 200510132022.54923.dziegel () gmx ! de
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On Monday 10 October 2005 23:00, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> Hello devs,
>
> after installing kdetv 0.8.7 or 0.8.8 I have major problems. After startup
> the application mutes the speaker waits for several seconds and dipslay
> then an error box that it has problems with the video driver. Selecting a
> channel unmutes the speaker and "normally" I hear just noise, the movie
> area stay black though. Sometimes I have the proper sound, but still a
> black screen and one time I could see the first channel and had sound, but
> could not switch to the other channels anymore (neither move nor sound).
>
> The weird thing is, that kdetv 0.8.4 works like charm. I don't know about
> kdetv-0.8.5 and kdetv-0.8.6, since they were never marked stable for
> Gentoo. Unfortunately I don't know too much about all the possibly
> necessary configurations, but since the old version has no problem with the
> video driver I don't assume, that my configuration is that bad. What useful
> information can I provide?
Looks like kdetv's v4l2 plugin has problems with your video card. Try using 
the v4l1 plugin (Other device in "Video" menu).

Dirk
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