[mythtv] Experimental pvr 350 output patch

David Engel dlengel at attbi.com
Thu Dec 18 02:49:51 EST 2003


On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:32:53PM -0600, David Engel wrote:
> I tried V4L2_CID_IVTV_DEC_PREBUFFER = 1, it didn't seem to help.  I
> forgot to try V4L2_CID_IVTV_DEC_NUM_BUFFERS = 1.  I'll do that soon.

Didn't seem to help much.  I left it in, though, since it didn't seem
to hurt.

> During normal playback, I can probably revert to the existing icotl to
> eliminate the delay most of the time.  Even so, this can cause a
> >=10ms delay too, we suspect because of a known firmware bug and the
> driver not handling it correctly.

I finally got around to coding and testing Kevin's proposed fix for
the firmware/driver problem and it works.  The change is pretty
pervasive, though, so I'm not going to include it in my ivtv patch.

David
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