[mythtv-users] Optimizing MythTV for AMD64

[Mark Knecht]

Dustin,
   I also am using a PVR-250 but on a Gentoo/P4 machine - not AMD_64 -
and I'm also getting blank recordings. I think the problem is in the
way I've done the connections page.

   Are you able to get TV by setting the default input to the Tuner? I
haven't tried that. Well, I did tell mythtv-setup to make the default
input the tuner but when I start mythfrontend it still comes up using
Composite 0.

   Anyway, I think the blank screen may not be AMD_64 but that we're
bothing doing something wrong with the connections page. Jsut my
guess.

Thanks and good luck,
Mark

On 4/25/05, Dustin Nicholas Jenkins <at88mph at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Greg,
> 
>     I too have an nVidia 5200 with a PVR-250 that works fine for the
> most part, I'm just working out why scheduled recordings come out blank
> for right now though...  Is there anything I can help you with?  I have
> a Gigabyte K8NS-Ultra 939 mobo with and AMD64 3000+ CPU.
> 
>     I just switched to the CVS version of MythTV and it seems to have
> fixed some weird MYTH_PROTO_VERSION error that I was seeing (Unrelated
> to the warning in the documentation).  I also find that I have to set my
> default input to Tuner0, is that common for everyone else who uses the
> PVR-250?  I also live in Canada and as such, I recieve NTSC which seems
> to work fine with the PVR-250.
> 
>     Does anyone know when this URL will be up?  It has to do with
> setting up MythTV with the PVR-250.
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html
> 
> - Dustin
> 
> Greg Depasse wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 4/3/05, *Kyle Rose* <krose+mythtv at krose.org
> > <mailto:krose+mythtv at krose.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     I posted the following on my homepage this morning:
> >
> >     I bought a dual Opteron 244 back in November of 2003 because I
> >     wanted a really, really fast desktop machine. Around the same
> >     time, I started playing with MythTV <http://www.mythtv.org/>, and
> >     it wasn't long after that I got a pcHDTV <http://www.pchdtv.com>
> >     HD-2000 card and began watching high-definition programming.
> >     Unfortunately, despite the Opteron's superior I/O bus design and
> >     incredibly speedy processing, it had more trouble decoding HDTV
> >     than did a much cheaper non-HT uniproc Pentium 4.
> >
> >     It has taken quite some time for MythTV to get to the point where
> >     it can reasonably be used with this configuration. Recently, a
> >     version of ffmpeg that appears to be optimized for AMD64
> >     <http://www.x86-64.org/> has been imported into the Myth CVS
> >     repository: to get this, make sure to uncheck the "uselibmpeg"
> >     option in Setup/TV Settings/Playback. However, this alone isn't
> >     sufficient.
> >
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >
> >     If you have success with this configuration, I'd love to hear
> >     about it. If you have problems and are able to determine what I've
> >     left out, let me know so I can add the appropriate config elements.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Kyle
> >
> >
> >
> > I have this same MB/CPU combo, but I am using a 5200 graphics card and
> > a PVR-250.  I don't have it working yet (the 250 is eluding me).  Do
> > you have any words of wisdom or has anything changed in the past
> > couple weeks since you originally posted this?  I was going to try
> > .18, have you tried it yet?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Greg
> >
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