[mythtv-users] First stab at mythtv...

[manu]

Le 08.12.2003 01:46:26, Thomas Fjellstrom a écrit :
> And it didn't go so well.. (I've already spent several days trying to
> get it
> to work...)
> 
> my all in one front/backend unit is built from the following parts:
> VIA EPIA M10k Nemiah w/ 256MB ram
> 80GB Seagate Baracuda 7200rpm (hdparm -t said ~56MBps)
> 12x LSD-081 DVD
> Happauge WinTV DBX stereo/radio TV card.
> 
> With the standard X drivers (in Gentoo's xfree-4.3.99.901 package),
> I'd get
> over half the screen corrupted after exiting LiveTV.. And the
> performance in
> LiveTV was terrible :( I Tried various encoding settings and none
> really
> helped, I kept getting the same Prebuffering pasues. With a newer
> (patched)
> via_drv.o from the viaarena forums, the corruption has gone away...
> 
> And I still haven't gotten any sound out of the TV.. I have btaudio
> loaded. I
> have to say thoguh, at least it displays picture, with freevo it
> couldn't
> play at all, my mplayer doesnt seem to have support for v4l in the tv
> drivers, and tvtime will only display pink, even after twidling with
> the
> device it uses and whatnot. But xawtv seems to work flawlessly, but
> its ugly
> (make that the xaw tool kit is fugly), and I don't believe it has the
> same
> features mythtv does ;)
> 
> I assume my machine is up to the task. I know my older much larger  
> and
> louder
> Athlon 900 could do it.
> 
> Theres got to be something I'm missing. Now, before anyone tells me  
> to
> check
> CVS, Its compiling right now :D Will it help? I hope it does.
> 
> Any hints? Tips? Thanks :D
>

I have the same HD and the same TV card, but on a Nforce2 based mobo,  
using the onboard sound card. btaudio works with no problem. LiveTV at  
a good resolution/quality works great.
All this works on a MDK 9.2 and mythtv-0.12.
I can provide some of the config files if you need some.
Bye
Manu