[mythtv-users] Latest IVTV driver(PVR-250) CVS and myth

[Roby Adams]

Are any of those machines running redhat 9.0?  I might try another distro to
see if that helps.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Isaac Richards" <ijr at po.cwru.edu>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Latest IVTV driver(PVR-250) CVS and myth


> On Monday 23 June 2003 10:24 am, Roby Adams wrote:
> > Well,  I got my MythTv box pretty much squared away.  All the modules
work
> > and everything looks good.  Now that it is stable I decided to get the
> > latest cvs of the IVTV driver (I had an pretty old one) and lo and
behold
> > many of the problems I had with the driver are solved.
> >
> > No more ghosting is resolutions less than 720x480!
> > Bitrate changing works!
> > Improved control over brightness and contrast.
> >
> > All of these I can set via the test_ioctl proggie that comes with IVTV.
> > The only issue that I am seeing is problems with sound when running at a
> > different bitrate than the default.  When I change the bitrate and view
> > live TV, myth correctly reports the bitrate but there is some sound
> > stuttering.  When I changed back to 8000000 and 16000000 peak it goes
away.
> >  I am not getting any rebuffering messages or any messages from myth at
> > all.
> >
> > I can use the same bitrate settings with mplayer by using "mplayer
> > /dev/video0"  That works fine and I get no stuttering.  (It does take a
sec
> > to sync.)  I can also cat /dev/video0 >sample.mpg and that plays fine.
> >
> > Is anyone else having this with the latest CVS of IVTV?  If not then it
may
> > be a soundcard issue or an issue with my build, in which case it would
be
> > an IVTV users group issue.
> >
> > Looking for some direction.
>
> It's a mythtv issue that I'm not able to reproduce on any of the 3
machines I
> have access to.  Someone else will have to fix it.
>
> Isaac
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