[mythtv-users] Share my success with 0.18

Steve Malenfant smalenfant at gmail.com
Sat May 7 03:25:03 UTC 2005


After having some issues with not being able to record anymore
(Changed the channel lineup, I think that's because I forgot to
redefine the source), I cleared the database, upgraded from 0.17 to
0.18 using apt-get (Thanks atrpms and Jarod's guide).

2005-05-06 22:35:54.415 mythfrontend version: 0.18.20050409-1 www.mythtv.org

My system is :
AMD Duron 1.6Ghz w/384 Mb
GeForce4 MX PCI
pcHDTV 3000
Slow 40 Gigs (Maxtor 6E040L0) with a little script that runs every
night to copy video to a unslung NSLU2 running NFS.
Example : /mnt/store/1005_20050503195900_20050503210000.nuv ->
/mnt/nslu2/store/05031959_American_Idol.ts
I called the contrib "mythlink.sh" inside a tcl script (that's all I
know how to use).

I'm probably using the bare minimum but that works...  I've been
recording with this 100$ PC from Fry's for a while, but I could never
playback correctly before 0.18.

I'm using NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-7174, XVMC output (yeah, seems to
work better now...) for 720p and 1080i with Bob deint.  I've reduced
some of the OSD settings to low cpu.

720p content :
Cpu(s): 47.5% us,  7.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 42.9% id,  0.0% wa,  2.3% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu(s): 58.4% us,  8.8% sy,  0.0% ni, 29.2% id,  0.3% wa,  3.2% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu(s): 58.2% us,  9.2% sy,  0.0% ni, 29.4% id,  0.0% wa,  3.3% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu(s): 57.4% us,  9.6% sy,  0.0% ni, 29.7% id,  0.3% wa,  3.0% hi,  0.0% si

1080i content :
Cpu(s): 78.8% us, 11.6% sy,  0.0% ni,  3.6% id,  1.3% wa,  4.6% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu(s): 73.9% us, 12.5% sy,  0.0% ni,  6.3% id,  3.6% wa,  3.6% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu(s): 78.1% us, 12.6% sy,  0.0% ni,  3.0% id,  2.0% wa,  4.3% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu(s): 76.2% us, 13.2% sy,  0.3% ni,  4.3% id,  2.3% wa,  3.6% hi,  0.0% si

It doesn't work without issues.  When the OSD appears, it stutters a
bit and comes back to normal after the OSD goes away.  I'm not too
sure how to disable that completely, but I'll look a bit more.

I have 2 recordings (American Idol 04/26 and Desperate Housewives
(last one, wanted to see what this show is about) that I can't
forward/rewind.  The OSD appears, the video just stops and the time
remaining increases...  I can watch the whole recording without issues
if I don't jump/rewind the video.

I just wanted to share my success, now I need to get roku HD1000... 
Someone started working on some MythTV client, it would be a lot nicer
than a PC beside my Samsung DLP.  Thanks to all the developpers, it's
getting better (for me anyway).


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