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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll speak the heresy. I'm running both MTV and
GBPVR in WIN2000 (the later functioning very well through a Hauppauge MediaMVP)
and the Myth box directly plugged into my A/V stuff. Strengths and weaknesses to
both solutions but worth taking a look at. Take a look at the forums @
gbpvr.com.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Littlalex</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=sixarm@gmail.com href="mailto:sixarm@gmail.com">SixArm</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mythtv-users@mythtv.org
href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:28
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [mythtv-users] I'm thinking of
switching to windows :(</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I consider myself a pretty savvy Linux user. It's my day
job and I live and breath it 10 hours+ a day. I've gone through the mailing
lists and tried just about every troubleshoot technique I could
find.<BR><BR>I've tried multiple combination of linux distros and drivers to
get my mythtv setup working nicely. However, I can't seem to get the
magic combination. <BR><BR>Here's my hardware setup:<BR><BR>MSI K8 Neo4
Platinum mobo<BR>AMD64 3200+ Athlon<BR>2 Gig Kingston RAM<BR>2 x 200G Samsung
SATA drives<BR>Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS<BR>Haupauge WinTV-PVR 350
pci<BR>PCHDTV-3000 HD tuner <BR>NEC 16x DVDR<BR><BR>I don't really watch live
tv and my ultimate goal is to be able to schedule and record clear QAM HDTV
from comcast. As a bonus I'd like to be able to archive my dvds to a
fileserver.<BR><BR>My first attempt was to use KnoppMyth which required
tweaking the setup to partition the disks myself. It just never liked my
SATA drives. <BR><BR>The second attempt was using 64bit FC4. No problems
getting the system setup but the ivtv drivers don't like 64bit.<BR><BR>Third
attempt was the most successful 32bit FC4 thanks to Jarod's FC HOWTO. I
could tune the Haupauge card and get the TV-out working nicely from the
Haupauge. No luck with the PCHDTV-3000. After one yum update I was
no longer able to tune anything on the Haupauge card. <BR><BR>For my
forth attempt I decided to go as clean as possible. 64Bit Gentoo.
I want to take advantage of the Athlon's Quiet & Cool and from what I was
under the assumption this is related to the 64bit distro?<BR><BR>I was able to
build all the device drivers except for the lirc stuff, but I'll sort that out
after I can see some HD.<BR><BR><BR>If anyone's got a similar setup or some
feed back I'd really appreciate it. My next step is to toss the HD3000
into the box of parts in the basement and work on a windows solution. I
really rather not do this. <BR><BR>I seem to only get static from the cards,
and it's hard to tell which device is associated with each card.<BR><BR>Here's
some troubleshooting info from my current Gentoo setup:<BR><BR>mythtv ~ #
uname -a<BR>Linux mythtv 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 #5 SMP Sat Nov 26 20:44:25 PST 2005
x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux<BR><BR>mythtv
~ #
lsmod<BR>Module
Size Used
by<BR>ivtv_fb
40920
0<BR>ivtv
207636 1 ivtv_fb
<BR>snd_emu10k1
114884
0<BR>snd_util_mem
5952 1
snd_emu10k1<BR>snd_ac97_codec
105496 1
snd_emu10k1<BR>snd_ac97_bus
4480 1
snd_ac97_codec<BR>snd_rtctimer
5024
0<BR>snd_rawmidi
24864 1 snd_emu10k1
<BR>snd_hwdep
10592 1
snd_emu10k1<BR>snd_pcm_oss
52320
0<BR>snd_pcm
89800 3
snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss<BR>snd_timer
23752 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_rtctimer,snd_pcm
<BR>snd_page_alloc 11792
2
snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm<BR>snd_mixer_oss
18112 1
snd_pcm_oss<BR>snd
52552 8
snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
<BR>8021q
20688
0<BR>nvidiafb
52512
0<BR>softcursor
4032 1
nvidiafb<BR>cfbimgblt
4864 1
nvidiafb<BR>cfbfillrect
6400 1
nvidiafb<BR>cfbcopyarea
6080 1 nvidiafb
<BR>s2io
49352
0<BR>tvaudio
26652
0<BR>tuner
26208
0<BR>tda9887
16080
0<BR>tda9875
10064
0<BR>tda7432
10264
0<BR>rds
11804 0
<BR>msp3400
29952
0<BR>ir_kbd_i2c
9868
0<BR>ir_kbd_gpio
8580
0<BR>cx88_dvb
10628
0<BR>video_buf_dvb
7300 1
cx88_dvb<BR>cx88_blackbird
16084
0<BR>cx8802
12164 2
cx88_dvb,cx88_blackbird<BR>cx8800
32716 1
cx88_blackbird<BR>cx88xx
59424 4
cx88_dvb,cx88_blackbird,cx8802,cx8800<BR>v4l1_compat
14084 1
cx8800<BR>bttv
184528 1
ir_kbd_gpio<BR>video_buf
21636 7
cx88_dvb,video_buf_dvb,cx88_blackbird,cx8802,cx8800,cx88xx,bttv<BR>v4l2_common
8512 2
cx8800,bttv<BR>tveeprom
16876 2 cx88xx,bttv
<BR>videodev
11328 5
ivtv,cx88_blackbird,cx8800,cx88xx,bttv<BR>btcx_risc
6472 4
cx8802,cx8800,cx88xx,bttv<BR>or51132
11588 1
cx88_dvb<BR>mt352
8900 1 cx88_dvb
<BR>lgdt330x
10140 1
cx88_dvb<BR>cx22702
8260 1
cx88_dvb<BR>dvb_pll
10756 3
cx88_dvb,or51132,cx22702<BR>dvb_core
82076 1
video_buf_dvb<BR>ir_common
10372 3 ir_kbd_i2c,ir_kbd_gpio,cx88xx
<BR>i2c_dev
12224
0<BR>i2c_algo_bit
10504 3
ivtv,cx88xx,bttv<BR>i2c_core
21632 18
tvaudio,tuner,tda9887,tda9875,tda7432,rds,msp3400,ir_kbd_i2c,cx88_dvb,cx88xx,bttv,tveeprom,or51132,mt352,lgdt330x,cx22702,i2c_dev,i2c_algo_bit
<BR>dcdbas
9272 0<BR>firmware_class
11008 3 cx88_blackbird,bttv,or51132<BR><BR><BR><BR>Some relevant dmesg
output:<BR><BR><BR>Linux video capture interface: v1.00<BR>bttv: driver
version 0.9.16 loaded <BR>bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each
for capture<BR>cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded<BR>ACPI: PCI Interrupt
Link [APC4] enabled at IRQ 19<BR>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:09.0[A] ->
Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ <BR> 58<BR>CORE cx88[0]:
subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV
[card=22,autodetec<BR>ted]<BR>TV tuner 52 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at
0x1fe<BR>cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:09.0, rev: 5, irq: 58, latency: 32, mmio:
0xfa000000 <BR>cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]<BR>cx88[0]/0:
registered device vbi0<BR>cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0<BR>cx2388x
blackbird driver version 0.0.5 loaded<BR>cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.5
loaded<BR>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01: 09.2[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19
(level, low) -> IRQ<BR> 58<BR>cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:01:09.2, rev:
5, irq: 58, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfc000000<BR>cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb
card<BR>DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]). <BR>DVB: registering frontend
0 (Oren OR51132 VSB/QAM Frontend)...<BR>rds: Ignoring new-style parameters in
presence of obsolete ones<BR>tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86<BR>tuner
(ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus cx88[0] <BR>tuner: type set to 52
(Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC)) by cx88[0]<BR>802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben
Greear <<A
href="mailto:greearb@candelatech.com">greearb@candelatech.com</A>><BR>All
bugs added by David S. Miller < <A
href="mailto:davem@redhat.com">davem@redhat.com</A>><BR>ACPI: PCI Interrupt
Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18<BR>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] ->
Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ<BR> 66<BR>Installing
spdif_bug patch: Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] <BR>ivtv: ====================
START INIT IVTV ====================<BR>ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged
release) loading<BR>ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 SMP
gcc-3.4<BR>ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
<BR>ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines
when<BR>ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.<BR>ivtv0: Autodetected
WinTV PVR 350 card (iTVC15 based)<BR>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled
at IRQ 16 <BR>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:06.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI
16 (level, low) -> IRQ<BR> 74<BR>ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency
timer, setting to 64 (was 32)<BR>tveeprom: ivtv version<BR>tveeprom:
Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = K268, serial# = 8230064 <BR>tveeprom: tuner =
LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47)<BR>tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M)
(eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000)<BR>tveeprom: audio processor = MSP4448
(type = 1b)<BR>tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13) <BR>ivtv0:
i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]<BR>ivtv0: i2c attach to
card #0 ok [client=unset, addr=18]<BR>ir-kbd-i2c: i2c IR (Hauppauge) detected
at i2c-1/1-0018/ir0 [ivtv i2c driver #0]<BR>msp34xx: ivtv version <BR>msp34xx:
init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler
(G)<BR> no-thread mode<BR>msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Nov 26 2005
22:53:01<BR>ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP3448W-A2,
addr=40]<BR>tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86<BR>ivtv0: i2c attach to card
#0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43]<BR>tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2
i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0<BR>ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner
unset), addr=61] <BR>ivtv0: Failed to load module tveeprom<BR>ivtv0: Failed to
load module tuner<BR>ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115<BR>ivtv0: Failed to
load module saa7127<BR>ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400<BR>ivtv0: Failed
to load module tda9887 <BR>ivtv0: loading
/lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin<BR>ivtv0: loading
/lib/modules/ivtv-fw-dec.bin<BR>ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032<BR>ivtv0:
Decoder revision: 0x02020023<BR>ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x
32768 buffers (4096KB total) <BR>ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x
10800 buffers (2048KB total)<BR>ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x
17472 buffers (2048KB total)<BR>ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream:
455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) <BR>ivtv0: Create encoder radio
stream<BR>ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB
total)<BR>ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder VBI stream: 512 x 2048 buffers (1024KB
total)<BR>ivtv0: Create decoder VOUT stream <BR>ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder
YUV stream: 24 x 43200 buffers (1024KB total)<BR>ivtv0: loading
/lib/modules/ivtv_init_mpeg.bin<BR>tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE
series)) by ivtv i2c driver #0<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x40046403! <BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x40046404!<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x40046403!<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x44 not
found for command 0x40046502! <BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x40046406!<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x40046406!<BR>ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card
#0<BR>ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV
==================== <BR>eth0: no IPv6 routers present<BR>ivtv-detect[6067]:
segfault at 0000001e0000001e rip 00002aaaaac2ed30 rsp 00007ff<BR>fffff4ac8
error 4<BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x16 raw=0x3556 down=1<BR>i2c
IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x16 raw=0x3556 down=0 <BR>i2c IR
(Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x16 raw=0x3556 down=1<BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge):
unknown key: key=0x16 raw=0x3556 down=0<BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key:
key=0x16 raw=0x3556 down=1<BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x16
raw=0x3556 down=0 <BR>CORE IOCTL: 0x402c5639<BR>cx88[0]: ioctl 0x402c5639
(v4l2, -w, VIDIOC_???)<BR>CORE IOCTL: 0x402c5639<BR>cx88[0]: ioctl 0x402c5639
(v4l2, -w, VIDIOC_???)<BR>CORE IOCTL: 0x402c5639<BR>cx88[0]: ioctl 0x402c5639
(v4l2, -w, VIDIOC_???) <BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for
command 0x401c6466!<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for
command 0x40046406!<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for
command 0x40046406! <BR>CORE IOCTL: 0x402c5639<BR>cx88[0]: ioctl 0x402c5639
(v4l2, -w, VIDIOC_???)<BR>CORE IOCTL: 0x402c5639<BR>:<BR>cx88[0]: ioctl
0x402c5639 (v4l2, -w, VIDIOC_???)<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x401c6466! <BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x40046406!<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x40046406!<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x401c6466! <BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x40046406!<BR>ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not
found for command 0x40046406!<BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x16
raw=0x3556 down=1<BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x16 raw=0x3556
down=0 <BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x16 raw=0x3556 down=1<BR>i2c
IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x16 raw=0x3556 down=0<BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge):
unknown key: key=0x16 raw=0x3556 down=1<BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key:
key=0x16 raw=0x3556 down=0 <BR>i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x16
raw=0x3556 down=1<BR><BR>Any feedback would be
appreciated.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>-sixarm
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