I have a setup with a RPi + Raspicamera streaming video to a second RPi with a small LCD monitor using the composite video output. Mplayer and netcat is used to stream the video but as soon as the streaming starts the display on the receive side goes black, nothing on the display. If I boot the receiving RPI the boot text scrolls normally on the display. Launching the graphical desktop as also faultless.
However, if a monitor connected to the hdmi output is used instead of the composite output (with appropriately modified config.txt) streaming works and displays normally.
But it gets weirder still, if I ssh into the receiving RPi and initiate the streaming with a command via the ssh connection, the streaming video appears on the composite display covering about 2/3 of the area whilst the console output flicks at an irregular rate in the background on the remainder of the display.
I have tried to get this working for more than a week now but the behaviour seems so strange that have reached my wits end.
Heeeelp!
Jens