[From nobody Sun Dec 28 16:31:33 2003
Subject: New driver ivtv-0.1.6
From: Torsten Schenkel <torsten.schenkel@web.de>
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 19:44:22 +0100
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Hi,

just tested the new driver.

I did include David Engel's patch for mythtv since it did apply cleany
and Kenneth didn't say anything if the new functionality was included in
the new release or not. So this might not be representative. But still
...

The new driver is MUCH more stable than the old one. Good work!

BUT: Two main problems persist:

1. The "have to boot multiple times" problem is still there. Once it's
initialized correctly, it's mostly stable. I don't expect it to have
changed anything with regards to recording, which was rock solid for me
since Anduin's patches were committed to the main tree (no 0 bytes and
no tinny audio since, not one missed or corrupted recording)

2. It is a LOT more stable with ffw, rew or skipping around (in mythtv).
But you can still force the frontend to freeze when you overdo it (ffw
at 8x or skipping forward with key repeat about 20 times, for example)

/var/log/messages says:

 Dec 28 19:16:24 myth kernel: ivtv: EOS interrupt not received! stopping
anyway.
Dec 28 19:16:58 myth kernel: ivtv: ivtv_dec_timeout: lost IRQ;
resetting...
Dec 28 19:17:22 myth last message repeated 26 times


The new version definitely is a HUGE step towards usability.

HTH,

Torsten
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Config files for PVR350 TV-Out:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/ivtv-pvr-350-conf.tgz
Walkthrough: MythTV on Epia with PVR350 using Debian:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/myth/mythtv_debian_epia_pvr350_walkthrough

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