[mythtv-users] PVR350 video out very slow (Nvidia way better)
Emmanuel Hislen
hislen at mindspring.com
Sat Feb 7 03:15:47 EST 2004
All right, it's working now!
Thanks to all who replied and helped!!
video16 not being a character buffer was the issue.
At first I thought it did not change anything because the dd test was
still failing. But browsing the ivtv archives I found out the dd test
cannot work without the "ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -noglobalalpha -localalpha"
business because otherwise the framebuffer was kind of hiding the video
from /dev/video16.
So I tried wioth MythTV, and hurrah! Indeed the image is pretty good,
plus now the audio is coming out of the composite,
I was really scared for a minute because when I went to the guide, the
image was translucid and the whole system hanged, I had to reset
manually. But I think this is a "known" issue.
Now that everything is working I just have to upgrade to 0.14 :-)
Emmanuel.
Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote:
>Hiho,
>
>Emmanuel Hislen schrieb am 06. Februar 2004:
>
>
>
>>Now I feel like an idiot...
>>
>>
>
>don't - you just missed a minor thing
>
>
>
>>How do I know if /dev/video16 is the right one?
>>
>>Here's what I have:
>>
>>[root at fantasio dev]# ls -l /dev |grep video
>>drwxr-xr-x 2 manu manu 4096 Jan 23 01:28 video
>>crw------- 1 manu root 81, 0 Sep 15 06:40 video0
>>crw------- 1 manu root 81, 1 Sep 15 06:40 video1
>>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 23 01:28 video1394
>>-rw-rw---- 1 manu root 4444096 Feb 6 21:14 video16
>>crw------- 1 manu root 81, 2 Sep 15 06:40 video2
>>crw------- 1 manu root 81, 3 Sep 15 06:40 vide
>>
>>Note every time I do the dd test video16 gets bigger. Looks like nobody
>>is reading/removing content from it.
>>
>>
>
>Look careful. video0 is a character device, video1 too (you see that
>"c" at the beginning of the line, where usually is nothing or a "d"
>like directory? This is the flag for a character device). but
>video16 is a simple file - and this is wrong.
>
>try the following: remove /dev/video16 (this is just a file, I think
>with the mpeg-data in it) and type the following:
>
>mknod /dev/video16 c 81 16
>
>This should create the character device /dev/video16. After that,
>retry your tests.
>
>Ciao, Hanno
>
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