[mythtv-users] VIA M787 Motherboard and mythfrontend
Thomas Kaiser
mythtv at kaiser-linux.li
Tue Dec 4 23:05:25 UTC 2007
Gert van der Knokke wrote:
> Thomas Kaiser wrote:
>> Hello members of the list
>>
>> I have a VIA M787 Motherboard something like this one
>> http://www.ciao.co.uk/PCCHIPS_M787CL__5411051 and I would like to use this as a
>> Mythtvfrontend.
>>
>> I have 512MB RAM installed.
>>
>> I use KnoppMyth Live CD to test if this MB is able to run as a Mythfrontend. It
>> looks not so bad, KnoppMyth is starting and plays a stream from my Myth Backend
>> box, but the picture holds all second or so for may be 200ms. Thus, not usable
>> for watching TV.
>>
>> Has anybody on this list any experience with this MB?
>>
>>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Try selecting the Via-XVMC decoder in the TV Playback settings, that
> should get playback up to speed. I have used a similar board in one of
> my frontends and it plays Live-TV, recorded videos and avi's without
> major problems.
>
> Be careful not to put anything into the PCI slots (like TV, network or
> ATA cards or such) since this chipset is bugged by DMA problems. As a
> standalone frontend it is OK though.
>
> Gert
>
Hi Gert
After a while I was thinking I was the only crazy people who tries to run a
Mythtv-frontend on this MB. But now I know I am not the only one.
I didn't see the "Via-XVMC decoder" setting, but I will look again, thanks.
For what does "Via-XVMC" stands for?
Actually the idea was to boot of a CF card as a HD but it seems that the CF card
is much slower than a real HD :-(.
I installed a basic Ubuntu and added only the packages as I needed (and a little
more for xorg, I think). Anyway, It boots and runs, but I have still the same
jitter problem. When I look at the kernel messages I see that DMA gets disabled.
Maybe this is the problem. The CF card has no DMA :-(
In the mythtv log I see some "prebuffer underrun" or somthing like this, I don't
have access to the log right now, sorry.
Now, I will try to get something together which just loads form the CF card and
runs in ram. I did a lot of reading about "initramfs", I think this the way to
go, or not?
I will work on this for some time or buy some other hardware :-(
Thomas
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