[mythtv-users] Hardware Decode on Epia running Debian is working
(sort of...)
Dan Fleming
dfleming at swings.2y.net
Tue Oct 28 12:37:16 EST 2003
This post might be long, but there has to be others out there smarter
than I am trying to do something similar.
I have an Epia M9000 with a PVR-250 running Debian unstable (sid).
After reading a post from HJHopkins at the viaarena forums, he mentioned
he was able to install the binary kernel modules provided from Via with
a custom kernel using insmod -f. I followed his instructions, and
compiled a 2.4.22 kernel after applying the agp/drm via patches. After
installing the kernel I was able to insmod -f the videodev.o and
via_v4l_drv.o RedHat 9 kernel modules. Then I copied over the RedHat 8,
4.2 X-windows modules to their proper locations. X-windows comes up and
the logs show that agp and drm are enabled. Everything seems happy.
I successfully compiled the MythTV v.12 sources with CLE266 hardware
decoding enabled and installed. MythTV runs and *does* use the hardware
decoding. here is my problem: watching Live TV there is a stutter about
every second with a "prebuffering pause" in the logs; very annoying.
Watching a recorded program the "prebuffering pause" does occur but very
infrequently. Oddly watching Live TV with MythTV compiled *without*
hardware decoding worked much better at the same resolutions.
Will the PVR-250 and Epia ever play nice? I am not sure what to do at
this point to address the prebuffering pause stutter. Anyone have any
ideas? Any of you RedHat folks have the same problem?
---Dan
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