[mythtv-users] Can mythtv handle two dumb capture cards?

[Ben Brown]

I've got 2 bt878 cards on a XP2000+ and it runs fine.  How much RAM do you
have. I was having several problems with the most recent myth, and found it
was a memory issue.  I've had my mythtv running for about 2.5 years on this
box.  Always had 256M ram.  With the latest myth 15.1 and cvs I found it
would not run stable with less than 512. 

Ben

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Adam Felson
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:05 AM
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Subject: [mythtv-users] Can mythtv handle two dumb capture cards?

My system is an athlon XP 3000 w/ two bt878 capture cards. 
I'm getting tons of "ran out of free AUDIO buffers :-(" errors on the
backend and tons of "Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!" on the
frontend.  About 1 in 10 recordings will have hiccups where the video will
have trouble spots -- "black holes" in the recording where the recording
can't rewind/fastforward past the trouble spot and the trouble spot will
cause video to pause, lose sync with the audio, or simply crash the
frontend.

Last time I posted about the errors, somebody said that it was because I
might be running a resource hogging operation like filldatabase or a
compile.  Could simply running a second capture be causing the problems?

I'm getting very frustrated -- I have yet to see the system make it a week
without the backend crashing or 10 programs without the frontend crashing.


--
Adam Felson <a.f.5 at pobox.com>