[mythtv-users] I'm thinking of switching to windows :(

korebantic korebantic at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 30 09:11:10 EST 2005


Interesting. I assume you have used both MythTV and GBPVR -- how do they compare to each other?

--- Mike Wafkowski <mikeyw at sohogurus.net> wrote:

> I'll speak the heresy. I'm running both MTV and GBPVR in WIN2000 (the later functioning very
> well through a Hauppauge MediaMVP) and the Myth box directly plugged into my A/V stuff.
> Strengths and weaknesses to both solutions but worth taking a look at. Take a look at the forums
> @ gbpvr.com.
> 
> Regards,
> Littlalex
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: SixArm 
>   To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org 
>   Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:28 PM
>   Subject: [mythtv-users] I'm thinking of switching to windows :(
> 
> 
>   I consider myself a pretty savvy Linux user.  It's my day job and I live and breath it 10
> hours+ a day. I've gone through the mailing lists and tried just about every troubleshoot
> technique I could find.
> 
>   I've tried multiple combination of linux distros and drivers to get my mythtv setup working
> nicely.  However, I can't seem to get the magic combination. 
> 
>   Here's my hardware setup:
> 
>   MSI K8 Neo4 Platinum mobo
>   AMD64 3200+ Athlon
>   2 Gig Kingston RAM
>   2 x 200G Samsung SATA drives
>   Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
>   Haupauge WinTV-PVR 350 pci
>   PCHDTV-3000 HD tuner 
>   NEC 16x DVDR
> 
>   I don't really watch live tv and my ultimate goal is to be able to schedule and record clear
> QAM HDTV from comcast.  As a bonus I'd like to be able to archive my dvds to a fileserver.
> 
>   My first attempt was to use KnoppMyth which required tweaking the setup to partition the disks
> myself.  It just never liked my SATA drives. 
> 
>   The second attempt was using 64bit FC4.  No problems getting the system setup but the ivtv
> drivers don't like 64bit.
> 
>   Third attempt was the most successful 32bit FC4 thanks to Jarod's FC HOWTO.  I could tune the
> Haupauge card and get the TV-out working nicely from the Haupauge.  No luck with the
> PCHDTV-3000.  After one yum update I was no longer able to tune anything on the Haupauge card.  
> 
>   For my forth attempt I decided to go as clean as possible.  64Bit Gentoo.  I want to take
> advantage of the Athlon's Quiet & Cool and from what I was under the assumption this is related
> to the 64bit distro?
> 
>   I was able to build all the device drivers except for the lirc stuff, but I'll sort that out
> after I can see some HD.
> 
> 
>   If anyone's got a similar setup or some feed back I'd really appreciate it.  My next step is
> to toss the HD3000 into the box of parts in the basement and work on a windows solution.  I
> really rather not do this. 
> 
>   I seem to only get static from the cards, and it's hard to tell which device is associated
> with each card.
> 
>   Here's some troubleshooting info from my current Gentoo setup:
> 
>   mythtv ~ # uname -a
>   Linux mythtv 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 #5 SMP Sat Nov 26 20:44:25 PST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64
> Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> 
>   mythtv ~ # lsmod
>   Module                  Size  Used by
>   ivtv_fb                40920  0
>   ivtv                  207636  1 ivtv_fb 
>   snd_emu10k1           114884  0
>   snd_util_mem            5952  1 snd_emu10k1
>   snd_ac97_codec        105496  1 snd_emu10k1
>   snd_ac97_bus            4480  1 snd_ac97_codec
>   snd_rtctimer            5024  0
>   snd_rawmidi            24864  1 snd_emu10k1 
>   snd_hwdep              10592  1 snd_emu10k1
>   snd_pcm_oss            52320  0
>   snd_pcm                89800  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
>   snd_timer              23752  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_rtctimer,snd_pcm 
>   snd_page_alloc         11792  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
>   snd_mixer_oss          18112  1 snd_pcm_oss
>   snd                    52552  8
> snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss 
>   8021q                  20688  0
>   nvidiafb               52512  0
>   softcursor              4032  1 nvidiafb
>   cfbimgblt               4864  1 nvidiafb
>   cfbfillrect             6400  1 nvidiafb
>   cfbcopyarea             6080  1 nvidiafb 
>   s2io                   49352  0
>   tvaudio                26652  0
>   tuner                  26208  0
>   tda9887                16080  0
>   tda9875                10064  0
>   tda7432                10264  0
>   rds                    11804  0 
>   msp3400                29952  0
>   ir_kbd_i2c              9868  0
>   ir_kbd_gpio             8580  0
>   cx88_dvb               10628  0
>   video_buf_dvb           7300  1 cx88_dvb
>   cx88_blackbird         16084  0
>   cx8802                 12164  2 cx88_dvb,cx88_blackbird
>   cx8800                 32716  1 cx88_blackbird
>   cx88xx                 59424  4 cx88_dvb,cx88_blackbird,cx8802,cx8800
>   v4l1_compat            14084  1 cx8800
>   bttv                  184528  1 ir_kbd_gpio
>   video_buf              21636  7
> cx88_dvb,video_buf_dvb,cx88_blackbird,cx8802,cx8800,cx88xx,bttv
>   v4l2_common             8512  2 cx8800,bttv
>   tveeprom               16876  2 cx88xx,bttv 
>   videodev               11328  5 ivtv,cx88_blackbird,cx8800,cx88xx,bttv
>   btcx_risc               6472  4 cx8802,cx8800,cx88xx,bttv
>   or51132                11588  1 cx88_dvb
>   mt352                   8900  1 cx88_dvb 
>   lgdt330x               10140  1 cx88_dvb
>   cx22702                 8260  1 cx88_dvb
>   dvb_pll                10756  3 cx88_dvb,or51132,cx22702
>   dvb_core               82076  1 video_buf_dvb
>   ir_common              10372  3 ir_kbd_i2c,ir_kbd_gpio,cx88xx 
>   i2c_dev                12224  0
>   i2c_algo_bit           10504  3 ivtv,cx88xx,bttv
>   i2c_core               21632  18
>
tvaudio,tuner,tda9887,tda9875,tda7432,rds,msp3400,ir_kbd_i2c,cx88_dvb,cx88xx,bttv,tveeprom,or51132,mt352,lgdt330x,cx22702,i2c_dev,i2c_algo_bit
> 
>   dcdbas                  9272  0
>   firmware_class         11008  3 cx88_blackbird,bttv,or51132
> 
> 
> 
>   Some relevant dmesg output:
> 
> 
>   Linux video capture interface: v1.00
>   bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded 
>   bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
>   cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
>   ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] enabled at IRQ 19
>   ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:09.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 
>    58
>   CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetec
>   ted]
>   TV tuner 52 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
>   cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:09.0, rev: 5, irq: 58, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfa000000 
>   cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
>   cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
>   cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
>   cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.5 loaded
>   cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.5 loaded
>   ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01: 09.2[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ
>    58
>   cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:09.2, rev: 5, irq: 58, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfc000000
>   cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
>   DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]). 
>   DVB: registering frontend 0 (Oren OR51132 VSB/QAM Frontend)...
>   rds: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
>   tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86
>   tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus cx88[0] 
>   tuner: type set to 52 (Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC)) by cx88[0]
>   802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>   All bugs added by David S. Miller < davem at redhat.com>
>   ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
>   ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ
>    66
>   Installing spdif_bug patch: Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] 
>   ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
>   ivtv:  version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading
>   ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 SMP gcc-3.4
>   ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info 
>   ivtv:  between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
>   ivtv:  mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
>   ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card (iTVC15 based)
>   ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled at IRQ 16 
>   ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:06.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ
>    74
>   ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
>   tveeprom: ivtv version
>   tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = K268, serial# = 8230064 
>   tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47)
>   tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000)
>   tveeprom: audio processor = MSP4448 (type = 1b)
>   tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13) 
>   ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
>   ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=unset, addr=18]
>   ir-kbd-i2c: i2c IR (Hauppauge) detected at i2c-1/1-0018/ir0 [ivtv i2c driver #0]
>   msp34xx: ivtv version 
>   msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G)
>    no-thread mode
>   msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Nov 26 2005 22:53:01
>   ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP3448W-A2, addr=40]
>   tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86
>   ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43]
>   tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
>   ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] 
>   ivtv0: Failed to load module tveeprom
>   ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner
>   ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115
>   ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127
>   ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400
>   ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887 
> 
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