[mythtv-users] RE: New CLE266 Drivers

[Adam Wood]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of 
> bpierce815 at charter.net
> Sent: 12 November 2003 19:58

> I see.  Well I appologize for mistating any information on 
> this list.  I did find that the 40037 drivers seem to be 
> much more stable than the 40032 drivers.  However I was 
> unable to get the CLE266 compiled mythtv, or VeXP  to run 
> on them. Also, Video overlay seems to work alot better. 
>  If anyone out there has an M6000 and the time to try it, 
> I would be interested in seeing if the 40037 drivers 
> improved cpu utilization for video overlay for them as 
> well.

I've just finished setting up a M6000 for a friend with the new drivers.
I can't really get at the box to get detailed figures but I can tell you
it seemed to work quite nicely in the little bit of testing I did with
it. Mythtv stuttered occaisionally, using a pvr-250 by the way, but
mplayer had no problem with divx, xvid or mpeg2 files. I didn't download
VIAExp to try dvd playback so can't comment on that, but the rest worked
fine with plenty of cpu cycles to spare. If anyone is thinking about
compiling some stats on different systems, I seem to remember this from
a while ago I can get some more solid info.

Adam