[mythtv-users] mythtv playing recording too fast on FC6

Fred Firestine ffluvssg1 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 10:33:40 UTC 2007


I'm glad I could help, even though I feel like I was just grasping at
straws at the end there. Now my system's running like a champ, and I
am benefitting from the latest versions. Thanks to everyone again for
your help!


On 3/20/07, Carl Staub <carl at staub.net> wrote:
> For you people who like top-posting, here's the top-post.  Now scroll to the
> bottom. :-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Phillips" <dan at danandrachel.net>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Cc: "Carl Staub" <carl at staub.net>; "Michael Arndt" <marndt at bulldog.tzo.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv playing recording too fast on FC6
>
>
> > I'm lazy, so I found using the older package easier than compiling
> > anything as Fred did, but he got me pointed in the right direction.
> >
> > Thank you everyone,
> > Dan
> >
> > Fred Firestine wrote:
> >> PREP:
> >>
> >> 1. Backup your mythconverg database using mysqldump
> >> 2. Backup your recorded programs
> >> 3. Install FC6 and yum to the latest kernel
> >> 4. I discovered at this point I had the FC6 "586" installation bug
> >> mentioned in Jarod's instructions, so I had to obtain the 686 kernel
> >> and yum upgrade one more time...
> >>
> >> MythTV Installation:
> >>
> >> 1. Follow Jarod's guide through step 10, until you do
> >>
> >> # yum -y install ivtv-firmware
> >> # yum -y install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER
> >> # yum -y install ivtv_xdriver
> >>
> >> Notice I DID NOT install video4linux-kml-$KVER. I have read some
> >> suspicions by other people on this list that video4linux is causing
> >> some problems and apparently it is overkill for the purpose of MythTV.
> >> All that is needed is the saa7127 driver, so I followed the
> >> instructions here to compile/install it separately:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm still not sure what the problem is; but it seems that avoiding the
> >> full video4linux install worked for me.
> >>
> >> Thanks everyone for the info on this list! It wasn't easy but I did
> >> find what I needed from posts past and present.
> >>
> >> Fred
> >>
>
>
> AWESOME....
>
> Took me a while... I went down the same road Fred went.  I brought my system
> back up to date from 0.9.1 to 0.10.1, and even the kernel up to
> 2.6.20-1.2925.  Then I had to get rpm-build and ncurses-devel (I hadn't
> installed any of the development stuff on my box) to get through the config
> and compile of the saa7127 module, but now it works GREAT.
>
> Thanks Fred, Dan. (even though I read Dan's message immediately after fixing
> it.) :-)
>
> -Carl
>
>


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