[mythtv-users] HD success!

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 22, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Rich West wrote:

>
>> Staying away from VIA chipsets is never a bad idea either.
>
> Dumb question here, and causing this to drift off topic, but why is  
> this
> (avoiding VIA) the case?  I've seen a number of other related  
> comments,
> and, well, I am just curious as to the reasoning....
>
> Well, that and the fact that, after looking things over, all of my
> systems are VIA-based (never tried pushing HD with them, though).
>

VIA chipsets, especially earlier ones, had/have problems with DMA  
that have been known to cause problems with IVTV (see their site):

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Via_motherboard_problems

Some of these problems may have been corrected by now, but "once  
bitten"...

Brian Wood
beww at beww.org