Richards Jr, Edward C. wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Baudouin [mailto:andrewmb at gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 9:35 AM > To: General at brlug.net > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] MythTV > > > Ed, > > As a longtime HTPC user I must advise against MythTV. I have used it > between versions 0.14 and 0.18 and have always had various problems with > stability, sound being out of sync, processes going into zombie states, etc. > > I recommend the Hauppage PVR-150 product. You most probably don't need > the built in TV-encoding feature of the PVR-350 if your video card will > have suitable TV-out... not only that but I don't think that the PVR-350 > supports overlay at all so all you would see is the video...not the > guides or anything. I can recommend any Geforce2MX or greater (with > SVideo out) for video card purposes. > > Andrew > > /* Andrew, */ > > /* Thanks for the info. If not MythTV, what are you using? With regard > to sound sync, I have a set top DVD recorder and have that problem even > with it. As I mentioned previously, I have MythTv set up on my regular > Linux box with a Hauppauge WinTV 401 and it seems to be working well. I > have not had a chance to play with it a lot though as I just got it > successfully set up. I'm not in a hurry with any of this as my primary > objective is to further my knowledge and use of Linux. I will do some > investigation of your recommendations. */ > > /* Thanks, */ > > */Ed/* >
Sync problems in computers usually occur for 2 reasons. 1) Low CPU power. 2) 2 different devices for one goal. The first one is very common with especially cheap set top DVD players. They do not have enough CPU power to decode Mpeg2. It happens also with slow computers. Amount of memory might have something to do with this as well, but mostly affects (operates) only as buffer between the change of vob files or layers on dvd. The second is often problem when using one device for audio, and another for video. I have PVR-250, and if I try to view something from real time broadcast through computer, I have huge audio sync problems. When I view something straight of the HD, I have less sync problems. IF I would have audio and video done through one device, there usually are no sync problems as long as the device was correctly engineered. I've been on and off with setting up one of my linux boxes to replace my VCR. Due to too short weeks and days, I currently have the above system in windows box, with exactly same problems. I did finally have time to set up my soft RAID5 array to store all the media. Works beautifully. Petri
