[mythtv-users] CLE266 and -lddmpeg

[Derek Anderson]

of course!  i know there are a lot of people out there with CLE266 and 
PVR250/350 combo.

here's a recap of what i have done so far:
  * fresh build of gentoo
  * ivtv works like a champ
  * decided to forgo ALSA - sound is good enough for TV
    (maybe when i go for mythDVD)
  * xfree 4.3.99 with the CVS via driver
  * had to move to -ac1 for Xv
  * myth.11 ebuilds and deps
     * had to modify myth.11 ebuild.  settings.pro has a compile flag
       hard-coded that it should be picking up from make.conf.
  * at this point, a mostly working myth system.  via drivers sometimes
    don't render correctly, and CPU usage is high.  (320x480 and a low
    bitrate work around this issue with livetv.  recording is fine at
    640x480 for frontend playback on my 2100XP)
  * CLE266 ddmpeg library is available here:
    http://www.ivor.it/cle266/
  * mythCVS (with settings.pro changes to use decoder) compiles, if you
    include libddmpeg.so
  * mythfrontend segfaults when it tries to use the hw decoder
    (no meaningful/helpful error messages)

how does this compare with what you've done?  are there any ideas/steps 
i might have missed?  anyone else want to compare notes?


Simon Kenyon wrote:
> Derek,
> 
> If you get this to work would you please either tell me or perhaps more 
> usefully, let the list know what exactly you had to do to get it to work.
> I'm using debian (sid) on an Epia-M9000 with a PVR350. I have built 
> 2.4.22-ac1 to get the alan cox kernel modules which are necessry to use
> Xv with the CVS version of xfree86. All this messing around is to try 
> and get hardware decoding working on my box as doing it in software causes
> the CPU to max out.
> 
> I don't (and won't) run RedHat and have moved from SuSE to debian pretty 
> much for apt-get and friends.
> 
> I would love to get using_viahwslice working on my box
> 
> regards
> -- 
> Simon Kenyon
> Dublin, Ireland
> 

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