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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm new to this, so forgive my ignorance if either
of these questions are stupid. Here's my situation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>System specs:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mobo: ECS K7S5A-Pro</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CPU: AMD AthlonXP 1800+ (1533 MHz)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RAM: 512 MB SDRAM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Video: ELSA Erazor X (Nvidia GeForce 256 SDR) using
the latest nvidia driver from the nvidia site.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sound: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value,
using OSS driver.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>VidCap cards: 1 Hauppauge WinTV-Go, </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>1 Avermedia m179</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OS: Redhat Linux 9, running the 2.4.20-35_39
kernel.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've got MythTV installed, and working. It
starts up, gets my datadirect channel info just fine, and lets me try to watch
tv. That's where the problems begin. I'll start with what I hope is
the easy question. When using the Hauppauge card, even just watching tv
shows dysmally poor performance. Every 2 or 3 seconds, it pauses for about
a second, like it's filling up a buffer, or something. I was previously
running a much slower system (P3, 256 megs of ram) that exhibited this same
behaviour. Is there a setting somewhere I need to modify so that it won't
do this? If I start mythfrontend manually, and read the console
output, every time it pauses it says "prebuffering pause."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The other question I need answered involves the
m179, and ivtv. The problem here (I think) is that Kudzu doesn't even
detect the card at all, and I can't select it in MythTV's setup program.
I've tried using the RPMs found here. (<A
href="http://atrpms.net/dist/rh9/ivtv/">http://atrpms.net/dist/rh9/ivtv/</A>) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The RPMs I have installed relating to ivtv
are:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>rpm -qa | grep
ivtv<BR>ivtv-firmware-2.02.023-3.at<BR>kernel-module-ivtv-2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at-0.1.9-26.rh9.at<BR>ivtv-0.1.9-26.rh9.at<BR>perl-Video-ivtv-0.12-5.1.rh9.at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've gotten wind of a patched version of ivtv that
supports the m179 that might be what I need. I can't find an RPM, though,
and I've fumbled around with compiling it, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it
right. Any help you guys can offer on that would be sincerly
appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aaron</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS: If you need any other info from me, just
ask.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>