[mythtv-users] PVR-350 survey - what works and what doesn't?

[Nathan Berg]

I am running:

1 PVR-350 (and using the S-video out)
Tyan S1894 motherboard (VIA chipsets across the board)
Pentium III - 600MHz Coppermine
512MB PC133
40G Maxtor HD (OS)
200G Maxtor HD (store)
Voodoo 3500 video (not much use)

Gentoo 2.4.22-gentoo-r5
mythtv 0.14-r1
ivtv 0.1.9
xfree86 4.3.0-r4

I have DMA enabled, and my kernel has SMP (APIC) enabled because I can't
get it off for some reason, so I am booting with noapic for now.

Problems:  

- Live preview in the Recorded Programs listing will kill a recording in 
progress (cut and paste from Scott's post). I disable this feature.
- I am getting a hard crash (blinking caps and scroll lock) every night,
and about once during the day.
- I am also getting mythbackend timeouts, and lose parts of recordings
whenever things go south.
- The screen will black out and I will get seg faults when working with
the EPG

Why it's worth it:

- Picture quality is perfect. I would say it even looks better, but that
wouldn't make sense.
- I am only losing around 1 out of 5 recordings
- Watching live TV is great if I stay away from the EPG

I would like to patch my system with the latest and greatest 0.1.9 ivtv
driver, but I haven't found the right documentation. If someone has a
pointer? Same goes for mythtv. Currently I am just waiting for the 0.9.10
release of ivtv.

Thanks dev-team! You guys are the best!

Nathan 

> > I have:
> >
> > PVR-350 (obviously)
> > Gigabyte GA-7VM266 (this has a VIA KM266 chipset)
> > AMD 2000
> > 512M Corsair Value RAM 2700
> >
> > Debian Unstable
> > mythtv-frontend 0.14-5
> > mythtv-backend 0.14-5
> > ivtv 0.1.9 (I've also tried the "0.1.9a" patched version, with no 
> > visible changes)
> > lirc 0.7.0rc2
> > xserver-xfree86 4.3.0-2
> >
> > I have live preview in the guide set off.
> >
> > hdparm -I shows:
> > Capabilities:
> >        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
> >        bytes avail on r/w long: 40     Queue depth: 1
> >        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific 
> > minimum
> >        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 16
> >        Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
> >        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
> >             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
> >        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> >             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
> >
> > Existing problems:
> >
> > Live preview in the Recorded Programs listing will kill a recording in 
> > progress.
> > Viewing any recorded program will freeze the frontend, sometimes 2 
> > seconds in, sometimes 15 minutes in.
> > Fast forward at speeds higher than 1X will freeze the frontend.
> >
> > Live TV seems to work just fine.
> >
> >
> > I can't think of any other details to post...
> >
> > Regards,
> > -scott
> >
> >
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