[mythtv-users] Myth on the Epia M10000

[maestro]

hi paul 
i have the exactly same setup as you do, (M10K, PVR250, PAL, 720x576,
Unicorome Drivers, onboard audio (stereo only)) but i use it as a
combined fe/be.
ad 1.) see above
ad 2.) yep no problems at all
ad 3.) shouldnt be overkill as it runs here fine

if it matters i'm using Debian GNU\Linux sarge and mythtv from CVS from
some month ago.

so long
maestro

Am Die, den 11.01.2005 schrieb BARKER, Paul um 15:29:

> Hello all
> 
> If you read my posts of last week you'll remember that I've been
> trying to build a frontend on an Epia M10K system to replace my
> current large frontend box that used to be a combined fe/be.
> 
> I'm having big problems trying to get live TV and recordings to run
> without either audio out of sync messages (which results in dropped
> frames) or prebuffering pauses.
> 
> The current fe is an Athlon XP1800 with 512Mb of RAM and my LiveTV
> recording profile is full PAL res at 720X576. (The b/e uses a PVR250)
> 
> On the Epia box if I try to watch live TV or a recording recorded at
> this resolution I get choppy playback. If I drop the resolution to
> 360x576 things are pretty smooth. My CPU isn't pegged and I've turned
> off swap, switched to alsa and upgraded to the latest alsa kernel mods
> all as suggested in different posts on this list. I'm intending to use
> MythCVS so I can use the CLE266 h/w mpeg stuff and have tried various
> builds of the Unichrome drivers and MythCVS with varying results. I've
> also put another soundcard in and disabled the onboard sound. I'm at a
> point where I seem close to getting this to fly but it's taking up
> rather a large amount of time.
> 
> I guess my basic questions are  
> 
> 1) Is anyone out there running Myth using the Unichrome drivers on an
> M10K and using native PAL resolution without problems ?
> 
> 2) If yes do you use the onboard sound ?
> 3) Am I in overkill land with the 720 x 576 recording profiles ? (I
> was trying to minimise any filtering or scaling)
> 
> If I know this *should* work and is possible I'll keep plugging away
> but I'd like to know if I should just stop banging my head on the
> brick wall and switch to a lower resolution ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
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