[mythtv-users] IONITX-C tearing 1080p

[Johnny Walker]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Matt White <whitem at arts.usask.ca> wrote:
> Johnny Walker wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Am I looking for trouble running the HD-PVR and the HDHR on the same backend?
>>> Maybe.  While the HDHR is rock-solid, the HD-PVR firmware seems to be
>>> much less solid and may occasionally wedge the backend.  If this
>>> happens to be the master backend, then the frontends become inoperable
>>> and WAF suffers (speaking from experience here).  I was a lot happier
>>> when I moved the HD-PVR to a slave backend.
>>
>> Oh yeah - the HD-PVR has issues on the multi core machines - I almost forgot.
>
> I don't know about that - my HD-PVR is running on a Core2Duo, and it's
> been rock-solid ever since I upgraded to 0.22 and put it in production.
>  This is on a Gentoo install with a gentoo 2.6.31 kernel.
>

I'm glad to hear that - I'm planning on moving mine to a triple core amd phenom.

-JJ