[mythtv-users] Remote FE problem

[Kevin J. Cummings]

I have 2 machines.  My FE/BE is:

AMD 2700+ on an ABIT NF7-S2
1.5GB DDR
PVR-350
PC-HD5500
ivtv-10.1 from ATRPMs
mythtv-0.20.1-156.fc5 from ATRPMs
nVidia mx400 video card
xorg-x11-driver-nvidia-1.0.8776-1.lvn5
kmod-nvidia-1.0.8776-2.2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
Linux kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
FC-5 (up-to-date)

My remote frontend:

Intel Core-2 T7200 (2GHz) on some ASUS motherboard
2GB DDR2
mythtv-0.20.1-156.fc6 from ATRPMs
ATI Radeon X1600 Mobility video
(X11 screen size is: 1280x800)
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.36.5-1.lvn6
kmod-fglrx-8.36.5-3.2.6.20_1.2948_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2
Linux kernel-suspend2-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6.cubbi-suspend2
FC-6 (up-to-date)

How I use MythTV:
I record most of the shows I watch, and then watch them later on my
computer screens (no actual TVs involved).

My remote FE problem:
When I watch recorded SD shows on my remote FE, the colors are all
wrong.  The colors are correct in the preview window, but when I select
the recording to watch, when it goes to full screen mode, the blues are
very red, and the flesh-tones are very gray.  This makes for some funky
watching.  Furthermore, the screen "tears" when there is much motion on
it.  I think it is related to my FGLRX settings, but I'll be damned if I
can put my finger on it.  Also, the sound is "lagging" behind the video,
by a constant 2-3 seconds or so.  None of this happens when I watch the
same recordings on my combined FE/BE machine.  The colors are correct,
the video/audio are in sync.

My common problems:
a) The commercial cut lists are not as accurate as they were a few
months ago.  I have to edit them by hand to get them right.
b) When I go to edit a recording and fix the cut-lists, it tells me that
my 1 hour recordings are 1:08:xx long, but the videos run out around
0:58:yy (not a big problem, but strange since this I think this broke
about the same time frame as a) did.)
c) The audio seems a bit "high", like its playing too fast.  Certain
actors voices sound funny this way.

I have no ideas which of these are IVTV problems and which are MythTV
problems.  I'm happy to move any IVTV issues to the IVTV list.

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)