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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003>Brett,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=250203718-24102003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003>Thanks for the response, however, I can't find anything
in Setup that allows for enabling Hardware 350 decoding.
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=250203718-24102003>I've
tried running mythsetup and it only allows for setting up the backend
for video capture, tv listings, etc. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=250203718-24102003>(menu
options General, Capture Cards, </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff
size=2><SPAN class=250203718-24102003>Video Sources, Input Connections). The
Capture Cards section is set up</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=250203718-24102003>as
follows:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003> Card Type -> MPEG-2 Encoder Card
(PVR-250, PVR-350)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003> Video Device ->
/dev/video0</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003> VBI Device ->
/dev/vbi0</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003> Audio Device ->
/dev/dsp</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003> Audio Sampling Rate Limit ->
(None)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003> Default Input ->
Tuner0</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=250203718-24102003>I
even tried setting the Video Device to video16, but that didn't work either.
Same problem with frame dropping.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=250203718-24102003>I've
gone through the Setup menu of mythfrontend, but found nothing in the
playback settings (or any other</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003>settings) that speaks to hardware
decoding.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=250203718-24102003>Since
I'm fairly new to Myth, am I missing something? Do you have a screen shot of the
settings screen that I could</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=250203718-24102003>see
or could you be more specific?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003>Thanks again,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=250203718-24102003>Jim</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Brett Lucey
[mailto:brett@happykoala.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 24, 2003 11:27
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Discussion about mythtv<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mythtv-users]
PVR 350 TV-Out Frame Dropping<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Hi Jim,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>It sounds like you are running MythTV on
the framebuffer, but aren't using the Hardware decoding. Go into the
Setup menu, and select the Playback Setup. The second page allows
you to enable Hardware 350 decoding. Make sure that's
enabled.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>-Brett</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Jim.Sager@turner.com href="mailto:Jim.Sager@turner.com">Sager,
Jim</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mythtv-users@mythtv.org
href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">MythTV-Users List (E-mail)</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 24, 2003 11:07
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [mythtv-users] PVR 350 TV-Out
Frame Dropping</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2></FONT><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2></FONT><BR></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>I am new to Linux so please bear with any
ignorance that I may display. First off, here is my hardware setup:</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>ASUS P3V4X Motherboard (VIA Apollo Pro133A
Chipset)</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Pentium III 1Ghz
Processor</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>384Mb of RAM</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>STB Velocity 4400 RIVATNT AGP Graphics Card (TV-Out is
not being used)</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>ViewSonic GT775
Monitor</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Netgear MA311 802.11b Wireless
PCI Adapter</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Hauppauge PVR 350</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Western Digital WD1200PJ 120G Hard Drive (7200
RPM, 8Mb Buffer)</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>SoundBlaster
Live!</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Gentoo Linux (Kernel
2.4.20-gentoo-r6)</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>KDE 3</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>I loaded the latest nvidia driver for my
graphics card. I installed the latest ivtv alpha release, which supports
tv-out for the PVR 350. To compile the driver I had to change the line in
ivtv-fb.c that reads "pte_offset(pmd_offset" to
"pte_offset_kernel(pmd_offset". I modified the XF86Config file for
dual-display as noted in ivtv-fb.c, using the appropriate framebuffer
device, which is "/dev/fb0", and the appropriate BusID obtained using
"lspci -v", which is "0:10:0". I updated modules.conf as follows:
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>alias char-major-81 videodev</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>alias char-major-81-0 ivtv</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>options ivtv debug=1</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>options
tuner type=2</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>options msp3400 once=1
simple=1</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>options saa7127 pal=0
enable_output=1 output_select=0</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>add
below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>add
above lirc_dev lirc_i2c</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>I set modules.autoload to load the modules in
the following order nvidia, ivtv, ivtv-fb and saa7127. I downloaded and
installed MythTV version 0.12, enabling native ALSA (I have the latest
drivers installed) and LIRCD support. After booting up the system, I can see
KDE on both my monitor and the TV. When I run Myth on my monitor everything
runs fine. I can pause live tv, set recordings, record, playback, etc. with
no problems. However, when I run Myth on the TV, everything works fine,
except that live tv and recording playback drop frames and no sound can be
heard. Here is what mythfrontend reports back to me:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> generating cache image for:
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/blank.png</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> connecting to backend server:
127.0.0.1:6543</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> Opening OSS
audio device '/dev/dsp'.</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>
Over/underscanning. V: 0.000000, H: 0.000000, XOff: 0, YOff: 0</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> ***</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> * Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to
non-Xv mode.</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> * MythTV
performance will be much slower since color</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> * conversion and scaling will be done in
software.</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> * Consider
upgrading your video card or X server if</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2> * you would like better performance.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> ***</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> * Your system is not capable of displaying
the</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> * full framerate at
720x480 resolution. Frames</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2> * will be skipped in order to keep the audio and</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> * video in sync.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2> Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Courier New" size=2> Changing from None to None</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Shouldn't the PVR 350 be shouldering the bulk of
the video processing? I've heard other's say that all works great for them
with respect to PVR 350 TV-Out.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>I apologize if I am a bit long-winded, but I
wanted to give you as much info as possible to work with. Once again, I am
pretty much a newbee when it comes to all of this, so please keep that in
mind when responding.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Thanks,</FONT> <BR><B><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#000080 size=2>Jim Sager</FONT></B> </P>
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