[mythtv-users] pvr 350, cant FF RW or skip using TV-Out

[John Kuhn]

wow thanks for the exstensive reply.. I should have stated in my 
original post that I am using both of these drivers currently.. it did 
improve the random lockups i was previously having.. but I still cannot 
FF or RW without hard freezing my computer.. I also cant seem to watch 
playback for more then 30min..

on a side note which is somewhat odd.. i can watch LiveTV for hours 
without lockup.. i can even pause it and continue watching playback

--John Kuhn

KMF wrote:

> Howdy!
>
> On 2004.03.25 06:05, John Kuhn wrote:
>
>> well after finally getting the TV-Out working on my PVR-350 properly  
>> (so i thought) it seems i cant actually use it for watching recorded  
>> shows for very long.  I cannot Fast Forward or Rewind or have mythtv
>> automatically skip commericals or the entire box will freeze.
>
>
>> I'm wondering if anyone with this same issue has actually corrected  
>> it and how they did it? I'm currently using KnoppMyth R4v2  
>> (wonderfull distro btw).
>
>
>   When setting up my desktop with a PVR-350 and TV-Out I immediately
> encountered these types of problems using KnoppMyth V4R2 so when
> I set up my EPIA box used a different ivtv X driver from Matthias
> Badaire. It seems that people on the ivtv list were having good luck
> with solving these kinds of issues (at least back at the end of
> February). I just set up the EPIA yesterday so I can't make many
> claims except that it definitely works better than the soltion in
> V4R2 for me.
>
>  The thread is here:
>       http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/Feb-2004/msg00419.html
>
>   You can't use the binary supplied in this thread with the V4R2
> distribution because it is incompatible with the version of ivtv
> supplied in KnoppMyth so you need to recompile a patched ivtv
> driver.  This has been bundled up nicely by Matthias on a web page
> where you can retrieve the appropriate ivtv source that will work
> with the ivtvdev binary X driver.
>
>  Instructions for V4R2 follow, if interested:
>  (this is just a recap of instruction you'll find on Matthias' site)
>
>  - retrieve the ivtv tarball, ivtv-0.1.9a.tar.gz,  from
>
>       http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/
>
>  - unpack into a convenient directory
>  - cd ivtv/driver
>  - make
>  - if successful, make install will put the new objects in
>    /lib/modules/2.4.21-xfs/kernel/drivers/media/video.
>    (Don't worry, if you want to retrieve the old objects
>     they are in /usr/local/lib/ivtv/driver and you can do
>     a make install from there to get them back, check to
>     be sure).
>
>  - retrieve the binary X driver, ivtvdev_drv.o.gz, from
>
>       http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/
>
>  - uncompress the driver and copy to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/
>
>  - Assuming you already have the XF86XConfig-4 file setup for
>    TV-Out you just need to change the driver in the PVR-350
>    device section.
>
>    Replace the line containing
>
>        Driver      "fbdev"
>
>    with
>
>        Driver      "ivtvdev"
>
>  - If you can't unload the old ivtv modules
>    (I couldn't, "device busy") then reboot and give it a whirl.
>
>    Perhaps Matthias' fix will help you.  Let us know how
> it works out, for better or worse.
>
>
>   Good luck!
>