[mythtv] Video playback problems

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:34:31AM +0200, I wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:42:27PM -0400, William wrote:
> > > I'm using 2xDVB cards, XVMC enabled, ALSA disabled, AMD 2500+ 
> > > with GeforceMX440 and Gigabyte GA-7VAX Mainboard.
> > 
> > I have to agree with Yan. It may not be the solution to this specific
> > problem but switching away from that VIA chipset will save you lots and
> lots
> > of frustration. I went from a system that would not run for 30 minutes to
> > one that runs for weeks without a reboot simply by switching to a nVidia
> > based motherboard. And he is also right about the separate 4 pin power
> plug,
> > get a board that has one. Sell the turkey to a windows user on ebay, they
> > will be happy with it.
> 
> As an alternate datapoint, we're running a KT400A based Asus mbo in our
> MythBox, with two 250's and a Barton 2500+; 512MB of ram and 2
> BarracudaATA 200's, and we don't see hardware problem one.
> 
> And the machine has been on 24x7 since about August 1st or so.

And Flo replied:
> You might try newer ivtv drivers (0.2.0rc1) as there should be some
> improvements for via based horror.

(without indenting properly; please work on your mailer, huh?)

As the message to which you were replying notes, I am not seeing *any*
horror here, and never have.  Only 1 of the 6 or 7 ck-ivtv's I've run
ever even locked up itself, and none of them ever locked the box.

I am planning to move to 0.2rc shortly; I'm watching the postings on
the list...

Cheers,
-- jra
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