[mythtv-users] pvr 350, cant FF RW or skip using TV-Out
John Kuhn
kuhn at razorsys.com
Thu Mar 25 11:41:11 EST 2004
wow thanks for the exstensive reply.. I should have stated in my
original post that I am using both of these drivers currently.. it did
improve the random lockups i was previously having.. but I still cannot
FF or RW without hard freezing my computer.. I also cant seem to watch
playback for more then 30min..
on a side note which is somewhat odd.. i can watch LiveTV for hours
without lockup.. i can even pause it and continue watching playback
--John Kuhn
KMF wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> On 2004.03.25 06:05, John Kuhn wrote:
>
>> well after finally getting the TV-Out working on my PVR-350 properly
>> (so i thought) it seems i cant actually use it for watching recorded
>> shows for very long. I cannot Fast Forward or Rewind or have mythtv
>> automatically skip commericals or the entire box will freeze.
>
>
>> I'm wondering if anyone with this same issue has actually corrected
>> it and how they did it? I'm currently using KnoppMyth R4v2
>> (wonderfull distro btw).
>
>
> When setting up my desktop with a PVR-350 and TV-Out I immediately
> encountered these types of problems using KnoppMyth V4R2 so when
> I set up my EPIA box used a different ivtv X driver from Matthias
> Badaire. It seems that people on the ivtv list were having good luck
> with solving these kinds of issues (at least back at the end of
> February). I just set up the EPIA yesterday so I can't make many
> claims except that it definitely works better than the soltion in
> V4R2 for me.
>
> The thread is here:
> http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/Feb-2004/msg00419.html
>
> You can't use the binary supplied in this thread with the V4R2
> distribution because it is incompatible with the version of ivtv
> supplied in KnoppMyth so you need to recompile a patched ivtv
> driver. This has been bundled up nicely by Matthias on a web page
> where you can retrieve the appropriate ivtv source that will work
> with the ivtvdev binary X driver.
>
> Instructions for V4R2 follow, if interested:
> (this is just a recap of instruction you'll find on Matthias' site)
>
> - retrieve the ivtv tarball, ivtv-0.1.9a.tar.gz, from
>
> http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/
>
> - unpack into a convenient directory
> - cd ivtv/driver
> - make
> - if successful, make install will put the new objects in
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-xfs/kernel/drivers/media/video.
> (Don't worry, if you want to retrieve the old objects
> they are in /usr/local/lib/ivtv/driver and you can do
> a make install from there to get them back, check to
> be sure).
>
> - retrieve the binary X driver, ivtvdev_drv.o.gz, from
>
> http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/
>
> - uncompress the driver and copy to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/
>
> - Assuming you already have the XF86XConfig-4 file setup for
> TV-Out you just need to change the driver in the PVR-350
> device section.
>
> Replace the line containing
>
> Driver "fbdev"
>
> with
>
> Driver "ivtvdev"
>
> - If you can't unload the old ivtv modules
> (I couldn't, "device busy") then reboot and give it a whirl.
>
> Perhaps Matthias' fix will help you. Let us know how
> it works out, for better or worse.
>
>
> Good luck!
>
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