[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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