[mythtv-users] please help: Can't watch live TV for more than 5 minutes

[Dan Brown]

Thanks for the input.  Broken audio and networking makes me lean towards the
Asus board.  I'm not going with a front/back combo, so a low-power Epia
board is out.  Maybe I'll find an E10K to borrow to test its abilities.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Edwards" <sedwards at theedwards.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] thoughts about Chaintech 7NIF2-SUMMIT mobo


> I have one of these and I'm using it for my myth frontend at the moment.
>
> Good news: The video is really nice.  The NVIDIA drivers do their job
> nicely.  Get the latest NVIDIA X drivers or you'll get bizzare artifacts.
>
> Bad news: The net drivers from NVIDIA are broken or this board is
> broken.  Not sure which.  The sound is not fully supported, as it only
> allows for 48KHz audio under Linux.  Not a big deal unless you want to
> play audio that was encoded at 44.1KHz, like most ogg or MP3's are.
> They sound about a minor third too high in pitch.
>
> And, since it's an Athlon board, the cpu is HOT.  If it's running for
> more than a half an hour or so doing playback (about 16% CPU load on a
> 1GHz Athlon), the side of the case by the power supply gets so hot that
> I can't touch it bare handed.  I'm surprised I haven't let the magic
> smoke out yet.  This is in a uATX case with no significant extra stuff
> (ethernet card and sound card, no capture devices or such).  I'm going
> to try underclocking the chip if the board will let me, but if that
> doesn't work, I'm thinking of putting it into a full ATX case and giving
> it to my wife to run windows.  Hopefully the extra space will allow for
> some more air flow.  I'm assuming that the windows drivers are better
> supported by Chaintech than are the Linux drivers, so that will be this
> board's future.
>
> For the cost of this board and a chip you should be able to get an EPIA
> M9000 board, which should be sufficient as a frontend and is reported to
> have nice (enough) driver support.
>
> Hope this helps.  If anyone has contrary experience to mine, I'd love to
> hear about it.
>
> Good luck.
>
> -Shawn
>
> Joe Byrne wrote:
>
> >I'm interested in opinions about whether the Chaintech 7NIF2-Summit
> >motherboard would make a good platform.  I searched the archive on 7NIF2
and
> >nothing came up.  It's a microATX Nforce2 motherboard (GeForce4-MX-class
> >graphics) with TV out.  It also has a Cmedia 9738 4-channel audio chip.
> >Ideally I'd like to obviate the need for an add-in graphics and audio
card.
> >Also, I like the idea of maximizing airflow through the case by
minimizing
> >add-in cards.  Newegg has the board for about $100, vs about $75 for an
Asus
> >mATX board.
> >
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