[mythtv-users] Re: Problem with MythTv 0.14 and bttv 0.9.12 (or kernel 2.6.1)!

gkanis at cems.umn.edu gkanis at cems.umn.edu
Tue Feb 3 15:21:04 EST 2004


OK,

Here we are:

video output device: Radeon 7500 or if you prefer ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 
RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA])

xv picture controls enabled: No, I have not enabled them and here is what 
xvinfo says:
I have two adaptors: 
1) Adaptor #0: "video4linux"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 69
    operations supported: PutVideo

and 
2) Adaptor #1: "ATI Radeon Video Overlay"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 70
    operations supported: PutImage

I think you now have all that you asked me .... hoped so :-)

Does this help to indentify the problem... ?

Vasilis



On Tuesday 03 February 2004 01:34 pm, Patrick Reynolds wrote:
> > dmesg gives this:
> > bttv0: skipped frame. no signal? high irq latency?
> > [main=d519000,o_vbi=ad1d000,o_field=d519020,rc=ad1d01c]
>
> I see that sometimes, too.  You may get it less if you pick less demanding
> encoding settings (e.g., lower resolution or RTJPEG instead of MPEG4).  If
> you're happy with the output quality (that is, you're not seeing annoying
> skips or frame-drops), then don't worry about it.
>
> > video output device: no idea?
>
> He means your video card.  lspci -v and look for "VGA compatible
> controller."
>
> > xv picture controls enabled: no idea?
>
> Try 'xvinfo'.  You should get 'screen #0' with one adaptor, 'PutImage'
> supported, and some supported visuals.  If you don't get all of that, then
> you probably don't have Xv.
>
> > Watching LiveTv uses 50% of the CPU capacity.
>
> That's normal!  Live TV is constantly recording to disk so that you can
> pause or rewind.
>
> > I recorded a movie and transcode used 60% of CPU capacity (but I think
> > that this is normal).
>
> I would expect transcode to use 100% unless something else (e.g., Live TV)
> was running at the same time.
>
> --Patrick



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