[mythtv-users] Hardware Decode on Epia running Debian is working (sort of...)

[Torsten Schenkel]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:37, Dan Fleming wrote:

> Will the PVR-250 and Epia ever play nice?  I am not sure what to do at
> this point to address the prebuffering pause stutter.  Anyone have any
> ideas?  Any of you RedHat folks have the same problem?

Yes, same here, with an Epia ME6000. It got annoying enough for me to
switch to a pvr-350. The problem seems to be in the binary code, so I
guess there won't be a fix around the corner.

The problem definitely isn't in your debian setup. I switche dfrom
debian to redhat for the h/w support and am quite disapointed.

Your success is worth something for me though. The Redhat kernel has
some problems with the ivtv decoder as well, so I will switch to a
vanilla 2.4.22 soon. If I'm able to use the h/w support of the cle266
with xine that woul be a plus for me, since the fb (pvr350) is way too
slow to work with xine or mplayer until there is support for the pvr
decoder in xine.

Tv-out quality is at least an order of magnitude better on the pvr!

Torsten