[mythtv-users] ATI TV Wonder VE Users

[Steven J. Festa]

I use the VE card.
I changed this line: options bttv card=63 tuner=17 radio=1
in my modules.conf
to read : options bttv card=64 tuner=2 radio=1
and it fix all my problems

hope this helps

Steve

> Albert Santoni wrote:
>
>>Steven, you'll find there's several users on the mailing list who
>> experience
>>chops during LiveTV, but I think most of us are having different problems
>>manifesting themselves with the same symptoms...
>>
>>
> Count me as one of the people that is having problems.
>
> One thing that helps for me is to hit pause for a bit (less than a
> second even).  After that, video is much smoother for me.  This makes me
> think that maybe there is some buffer somewhere that needs increasing on
> my system, but I don't understand the code enough to know if this guess
> is anything but wild speculation.
>
> I also know that my system is very sensitive to context switches, so
> that might be part of your problem as well.  If I access mythweb, there
> is a 50% chance that the video will stutter.  There's a very noticeable
> stutter when mythfilldatabase runs as well.  Going over my system with a
> fine tooth comb and killing everything that wasn't necessary helped
> reduce these sorts of stutters, although I haven't been able to totally
> eliminate them.  I somewhat suspect that the nforce network drivers are
> a culprit on some of the stuttering.  If you are using nvnet, you
> definitely want 'options nvnet optimization=1'  in your
> /etc/modules.conf, or any network I/O will hammer your CPU.
>
> I guess I have 2 questions about it:
>
> 1.  Are there any buffers within MythTV that it would make sense to
> increase in an attempt to fix this?
>
> 2.  Is the PVR-250 less likely to have these problems?  I know that,
> being a hardware encoder it won't have as many problems staying in sync
> as the software encoders, but it's not clear to me from my symptoms that
> it's an issue on the backend at all for me.  Obviously I'd benefit from
> reduced CPU usage, but CPU usage doesn't seem to be my problem right now.
>
> Mike
>
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