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

[Glen Gray]

Well done Brendan,

I assume you where using S-Video or Composite previously, VGA would be  
vastly superior due to proper separation of color channels etc.

Things haven't gone near as well for me. There definitely seems to be  
some sort of problem with the mini-itx board. It rarely boots off the  
DVD-ROM (fails to detect the disc). However, I've connected the DVD  
drive to a dismantled USB HDD setup and it works perfectly when  
connected to my iMac. This seems to tie in with what I saw during the  
bootup, it seems to hang around the time IDE devices are probed. I've  
changed cables to no effect, I've reset the BIOS to safe defaults.  
Looks like new hardware is required if I've to get this thing working  
for Battlestar Galactica's return to TV in the next couple of weeks.


--
Glen Gray
slaine at slaine.org




On 21 Mar 2008, at 22:49, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> 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
>
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