[mythtv-users] hdpvr recording o byte files

John P Poet jppoet at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 22:46:53 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Eppo Eppleston <eppo120 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:13:15AM -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> > On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:02 AM, jedi wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 07:33:11PM -0500, Eppo Eppleston wrote:
>> >>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Robert McNamara
>> >>> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>wrote:
>> >>>
>> >> [deletia]
>> >>> i'm just saying that that wiki is confusing. it says that no
>> >>> patching is
>> >>> necessary in one spot, and then has patches underneath.
>> >>
>> >> The version of trunk that I am using has never been patched. I don't
>> >> really see the point of using a version control snapshot AND patching
>> >> the source. That seems rather redundant.
>> >
>> > Well, then please let me explain. Some patches are submitted but not
>> > applied to the code base for various reasons (unknown if it works and
>> > needs testing, doesn't apply cleanly to latest code, code needs to be
>>
>> ...all good reasons to stay away from it unless you're actually
>> doing active development rather than just interested in the most
>> bleeding edge version of the project available.
>>
>> If checking it out of source control is pushing you past your
>> comfort zone then patching the source is probably not a good
>> idea. If trunk seems broken (for whatever reason) then you
>> might want to hold off a bit.
>>
>> [deletia]
>> >> wasn't connected or if I changed the resolution. The version of
>> >> everytthing
>> >> that I have been using (hdpvr driver + myth trunk + firmware) I think
>> >> is
>> >> not supposed to handle resolution changes on the HDPVR.
>> >>
>> >> So I just have it locked at 720p.
>> >>
>> >> [deletia]
>> >>
>> >> Now, the backend/hdpvr occassionally needs restarted.
>> >>
>> >> Although that's not really any different than my experience with
>> >> MythTV
>> >> in general including several formal releases.
>> >
>> > I've also locked my STB's to outputting only 720p and do longer worry
>> > about resolutions changing on me or not having a source connected.
>
> i already had the box locked at 720p. after the last post i downloaded the
> latest firmware, and installed it. that made no difference, and then i
> recompiled and patched, the mpegrecorder patch did not patch cleanly so i
> had to patch that file manually. now everything is seeming to work
> flawlessly.
> although some people say not to touch the cvs version unless your a dev, but
> i needed it to get the hdpvr support. of course you are going to hit some
> bumps accross the way. but i like the feeling of getting things to work
> correctly and i'm not new to linux, so i felt i was up to it. when it was
> all said and done, i'm finally happy that it is working correctly.
> thanks for everyones help.

Hmmm, wiki needed updated.  That ticket had a patch which applies just
fine, but the wiki was still instructing to load the old version.

Glad you got it working.

John
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