[mythtv-users] Dual BT878 cards in Mandrake success

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday, Sep 22, 2003, at 01:02 US/Pacific, Saravanan Subbiah wrote:

> U got btaudio to work with Avermedia and WinTV Go ? Using Mandrake 9.1 
> I
> wasn't able to make it to work. May be I should try 9.2Rc2 ?

The WinTV Go doesn't support btaudio at all, ever, no matter what 
distro. It doesn't have the necessary msp34xx chip on it. I believe he 
only said he got btaudio working with the Avermedia card. And it 
shouldn't be so much a matter of what distro you're running to get 
btaudio working, it should be more of a factor of the version of bttv 
drivers you're running. Try updating your bttv drivers before updating 
your entire OS just for that.

--Jarod


> On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 23:53, Sean, Sharon and Kyle Harbour wrote:
>> I finally got dual cards working in Mandrake.
>> A WinTV Go, and an Avermedia stereo. The Avermedia has really
>> noticeable interference from the slip fit connector, so it's probably
>> going to get replaced with another WinTV Go card.
>> I was having a heck of a time getting the alsa drivers in Mandrake
>> 9.1 to cooperate with multiple stereo cards using the ES1371 driver.
>> I eventually got it working by installing Mandrake 9.2 RC2 and
>> compiling MythTv from CVS, using an an el cheapo Creative Labs 5880
>> (rebadged Ensonic 1371), and a Trident 4DX, with an old Mach64
>> RageII+DVD for tv out and the gatos dri patches for xv acceleration.
>> For some reason I still can't get analog sound from the Avermedia
>> card output to the line in on the Creative card, but the btaudio
>> drivers now seem to work decently with M 9.2., so it doesn't seem to
>> matter now. My 1200 Athlon is running right at 100% recording two
>> shows at 480x480 in mpeg4 at the default settings, so I'll bump up
>> the cpu to a 2000+ I have in another system and see if I can get the
>> occasional stutter to go away when the second card kicks in. I'll
>> probably need a little bit more to handle playback during double
>> recording though. So far, picture quality looks good, and the
>> annoying interlaced flicker effect from moving objects is almost
>> completely gone using the default settings, compared to the Myth .11
>> rpms on Mandrake 9.1. I'll try fine tuning the color balance and
>> audio and see how it goes.
>>
>> Sean Harbour

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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