[mythtv-users] X-Box Frontend, problems with Watch Recordings Data

[Michael Greb]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 07:13:04AM -0500, Dennis Cartier wrote:
 The Frontend, assuming he is using my 0.13 update off my site is plain 
> vanilla 0.13 as released.
> 
> I noticed something similar when I was trying out Xebian and used the 
> debian packages of .13. It seemed like the debian packages where perhaps 
>  newer, maybe CVS or something.
> 
> I did not give it much more thought as the Xebian experiment was a 
> failure anyway. For some reason, Myth cannot seem to run decently on any 
>  xbox video driver after the one I currently use, which I pilfered from 
> Ed's 0.4.1. The latest Xebian allows perfect overscan, but runs at about 
> 15fps. Oddly Mplayer runs normal. Weird.
> 
> Dennis

Aye, is a known yet very frustrating bug.  I've spent some time
working with Oliver, the author of those drivers, to get things
working but we couldn't find the problem.  It arises from the
way the over scan is set.  If you don't set overscan values
in the kernel append line in linuxboot.cfg then things work just
fine but as soon as you set a value, frames get dropped.  Even looking
at the register dump from the Conexant chip before and after setting
overscan shows only the expected registers changed and the new
values to be as expected.  Recently Ed, the Xebian maintainer, has
tried out mythtv and fallen in love.  Perhaps with a bit of help
from him this issue can finely be resolved.  Interestingly mythtv
seems to be the only affected program.  Though I don't think it is
a problem with mythtv.

Michael

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