[mythtv-users] Re: Choice of Linux distro?

[Torsten Schenkel]

Am Fr, den 09.01.2004 schrieb Sam Gibbons um 18:04:

> I am also a long time Debian fanatic. I do have to say that using Fedora
> (with all of RH's strangeness) is slick and easy to maintain. With the
> addition of APT and the ATRPMs, this is just as simple as Debian to
> upgrade etc.

I'm talking of upgrades between major revisions (keeping an installed
base coherent and up to date on > 10 different machines for > 5 years
without loosing package database integrity)

> For your first time, this is the road of choice. If there is one thing
> Red Hat (and hence Fedora) does well is making polished and streamlined
> installation programs.

Fully ACK, and also ACK to the fact that redhat has some nice backports
to the kernel tree. But this also makes it a PITA to compile your own
kernels/modules on a redhat system.

> I am running a A7A266 with AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB RAM, 120 GB
> hard drive, GeForce2 MX440 video and a PVR 350. Works slick and it
> installed the first time correctly. I was recording shows in less than a
> couple of hours. And, most of the install time was due to xmltv getting
> listings.
> 
> I have yet to get TV-Out (from the 350) to work correctly, however. I
> get a picture and sound, but the picture is choppy and unwatchable via
> the TV-Out. So, I use the GF2 s-vid out with NVTV to correct the
> picture.

You are trying to play back using the fb as video display. You aren't
using the decoder.

Try 

dd if=test.mpg of=/dev/video16 bs=64k

Don't load the ivtv-fb module or set

ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -globalalpha

before, and

ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -nolocalalpha

after the dd.

In mythtv you have to set tv playback to use the pvr350 decoder in the
configure screens.

Torsten
-- 
Walkthrough: MythTV on Epia with PVR350 using Debian:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/myth/mythtv_debian_epia_pvr350_walkthrough