[mythtv-users] Woo Hoo - Mythtv lives... have a few questions though...

[Malcolm]

First off two thumbs up for the developers.  Excellent product that far
exceeded the level of professionalism I was expecting.  Very Nice.

I will also point out that I spent 90% of my weekend trying to figure out
how to make the PVR-250 work in Linux.  Getting mythtv itself to work was a
piece of cake.  BTW for anyone reading the archives the answer is ivtv
module for the pvr.  Google it from there.

PIII 500 with 256 Megs ram
PVR-250
No TV out yet.  Just running the frontend on the same box to the monitor.
PVR-350 (on the way, don't have it yet)

Fresh install of Mandrake 9.2.  Compiled my own custom 2.4.24 kernel.
Compiled ivtv 0.17 and insmod ivtv (along with the other modules).

1) TV quality seems pretty poor?  I'm sure it's a driver more than myth but
I wanted to check.  The best I can describe it is that there are vertical
and horizontal lines.  I tried my signal source (cable) directly into a TV
and confirmed it's a good signal.  I also tried using my VCR as a direct
source and it still looked like crap.  Where do I start looking on this?

2) Channel changing is kinda slow.  There's a pause delay when changing
channels.  Now I will point out the box was doing software decoding to the
monitor at full screen (not sure if a window is possable) and a seperate ssh
session from another box showed the CPU was pegged at a constant 100%.  Is
that probably all that's causing the slow channel changes?  Does myth
"normally" flip channels quickly?

Thanks again for an excellent product.
Malcolm