[mythtv-users] my experience with Asus Pundit / PVR 250

[Eric S]

No ghosting here, any obvious difference in your card setup??  Mine is 
a Temic tuner on input #4.

pundit:~# test_ioctl -a
ioctl: IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC
Codec parameters
aspect      : 2
audio       : 0x00e9
bframes     : 3
bitrate_mode: 0
bitrate     : 4500000
bitrate_peak: 6000000
dnr_mode    : 0
dnr_spatial : 0
dnr_temporal: 0
dnr_type    : 0
framerate   : 0
framespergop: 15
gop_closure : 0
pulldown    : 0
stream_type : 0
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FMT
         Type   : Video Capture
         Width  : 544
         Height : 480
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCAP
         Driver name   : ivtv
         Card type     : Vanilla iTVC15 card
         Bus info      : 0
         Driver version: 1
         Capabilities  : 0x01030001
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT
         Name    : Composite 0
         Type    : 0x00000002
         Audioset: 0x00000001
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
         Name    : Composite 1
         Type    : 0x00000002
         Audioset: 0x00000001
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
         Name    : Composite 2
         Type    : 0x00000002
         Audioset: 0x00000001
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
         Name    : Composite 3
         Type    : 0x00000002
         Audioset: 0x00000001
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
         Name    : Tuner 0
         Type    : 0x00000001
         Audioset: 0x00000000
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
         Name    : Composite 4
         Type    : 0x00000002
         Audioset: 0x00000001
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
         Name    : S-Video 0
         Type    : 0x00000002
         Audioset: 0x00000001
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
         Name    : S-Video 1
         Type    : 0x00000002
         Audioset: 0x00000001
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
         Name    : S-Video 2
         Type    : 0x00000002
         Audioset: 0x00000001
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
         Name    : S-Video 3
         Type    : 0x00000002
         Audioset: 0x00000001
         Tuner   : 0x00000000
         Standard: 0x            3000 ( NTSC )
         Status  : 0
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_INPUT
Input = 4
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FREQUENCY
Frequency = 884
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMSTD
         ID          : 0x            3000
         Name        : NTSC
         Frame period: 1001/30000
         Frame lines : 525
         ID          : 0x              FF
         Name        : PAL
         Frame period: 1/25
         Frame lines : 625
         ID          : 0x          7F0000
         Name        : SECAM
         Frame period: 1/25
         Frame lines : 625
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD
Standard = 0x00003000
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL
Brightness = 142
Contrast = 63
Saturation = 63
Hue = 0
Volume = 65535
Mute = 1
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On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Will Dormann wrote:

> At 08:33 PM 8/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>> Yeah, lower resolution 544x480.  My XFree86 CPU usage never seems to 
>> go
>> over 5% and normal sits around 1%.
>>
>> I tried bumping the quality to 720x480 and got very similar results to
>> yours with XFree86 up around 30% CPU usage.
>
>
> When I pick a horizontal resolution other than 720, I get some really 
> bad
> ghosting.   I think it's a bug with the ivtv driver.    You don't have 
> this
> problem yourself?
>
> -WD