[mythtv-users] TiVo Convert Experience - HDTV Video Card Recommendation

[Jarod Wilson]

On May 14, 2007, at 17:02, William Munson wrote:

> Jim Shank wrote:
>> I need to know if it's time to take the plunge and say farewell to  
>> my good
>> friend yum and hello to svn. It just kills me to feel like I am  
>> starting
>> over again when everything except the HDHR setup is working. It  
>> looks like
>> the wiki at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrading_To_SVN  
>> has a good
>> HOWTO on going to SVN. Is trunk the way to go? How does one get to  
>> "the
>> fixes branch"? Is there a way to get the newest without abandoning  
>> the
>> package manager? Any advice is appreciated.
>>
>>
> I would not upgrade to SVN as it has the same problems with the HDHR.
> Right now myth is broken and the only way to make it work is to  
> manually
> edit the channels table to correct it.

I've posted a few times now that I've got packages that work fine for  
a number of people... They're available in the mythdora tree (which  
is essentially fc6/i386).

http://dl.atrpms.net/mythdora/4.0/i386/os/MythDora/

> Royal pain in the ass.  I hope
> the devs get their act together soon as this is a real killer problem.

Its on my personal todo list, but I be busy... :)

> When I do a scan I end up with about 30 entries in the table and  
> none of
> them work.  Both the transport and the sub channel are often wrong.  
> For
> most channels I have had to manually specify the values and try the
> channel to see if they work and when it does not, try the next  
> higher or
> lower value over and over until it finally is happy. I still have 3
> channels that will not play under myth but play fine under the HDHR
> config program in windows.
>
> PS - I am running SVN and was thinking about dropping back to 0.20- 
> fixes
> but hate to lose all the info in my database with the required drop  
> and
> reload of the mc.sql file. On one bright note, your message told me  
> that
> the patches made by Jarod did not fix the problem and removed the
> temptation to go back.

Ah, but they do, if built against the right dvb headers. :)

I'll try to spend some time looking at a possible proper fix later  
this week. Seems its probably just a minor api change in the dvb  
headers...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com