[myth-ie] some success, at last, by burying ivtv

[Brendan Kehoe]

I'm now convinced I should let go of ivtv as the cement that's been
stuck to my leg.  We've got the full-size display going and everything
looks great.  Still using my 3-year setup, I'll mess with the Mythdora
on my two 500gb disks tomorrow.

I put back the changes to make MythTV display on my TV's VGA (Samsung
LE40R74BD).  Using XvMC makes it all go really well.  I figured out the
sound problem I had earlier ... with the VGA port is a stereo sound
input to the TV as a separate sound supply, so I just took the cable I'd
used before for sound from the Myth box and fed it up into there
instead.  (And the TV itself has its output going via a cable into the
Sony A/V box, but that's another nasty drawing of lines...)

I also got it to use the full screen properly by changing the Appearance
GUI sizes to be 0 instead of the hand-crafted numbers I'd done before.

I did notice moving up and down menu choices and such is a bit slow, but
the cause isn't yet clear.

I'm not yet positive that sound works for watching TV because it's
currently recording something.  But I did check that sound is working
properly for playing recordings, and separate AVI and MPEGs.  I'll check
tomorrow sometime about the live tv sound.

Using the ATI radeon card looks drastically better than the display did
when it was coming thru the PVR350.  Not only is the screen at the
1360x768 size I wanted, but everything is much crisper and clearer than
before.

Bed time.  Whee.

B