Hi Hans, I have been running 0.4.6 from almost the moment you asked us to test it.
I'm having no problems at all with a P4, Hyperthreading enabled, on Debian with a self compiled 2.6.15 kernel, 2 PVR350's and MythTV 0.19-fixes. I do occasionally experience a lockup while watching a recording, but this looks like it happens when a Myth recording ends or a new one starts while watching another. This is most likely a Myth problem, as currently I can fix this by pressing Esc and then Enter to carry on playing, Myth 0.18 did a real hard lockup (power cycle required). Do not have sufficient logs to report to the MythTV list(s)... One clear difference I do notice compared to 0.4.5 when changing channels in Myth LiveTV: (sequence of events:) 0.4.5: press key to change channel display freezes for ~2 seconds display runs for ~.5 second display freezes channel changes 0.4.6: press key to change channel display freezes for ~2 seconds display runs for ~.5 seconds display freezes display runs for ~.5 seconds channel changes So with 0.4.6 it seems to take slightly longer to change the channel and the channel actually changes while video is running. In 0.4.5 the channel change only occurs when the video is frozen. I suspect this is (partly?) caused by Myth, as the behaviour experienced in 0.4.5 was introduced by a MythTV update, not by an ivtv update. But perhaps some (subtle) change in ivtv activated/worsened this behaviour in Myth? I do recall a thread not so long ago about not needing to stop the decoder when changing channels... Could this be related?? Thanks for the good work! (how's the budget for the new monitor coming along? still need donations? ;-) Regards, Stanley. > Hi all, > > I'd like people to have a go with the 0.4.6 and 0.6.3 development > snapshots available here: > > 0.4.6: > http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/branches/0.4.tar.gz?view=tar > > 0.6.3: > http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/branches/0.6.tar.gz?view=tar > > The channel changing problem should be fixed now (and should be a bit > smoother too as the encoder is no longer paused/resumed). Please let me > know if there are still problems with it. Also test if you didn't have > problems before: it's done differently now (similar to what Hauppauge > does) so if I'm unlucky it might break something that used to work :-( > > There are two pending issues that I'd like to solve before I make > another release: 0.4.6 contains support for cx25840 sliced VBI for > NTSC: I get conflicting reports on whether it works or not. > > The second issue is a problem with the i2c bus and tveeprom. This is the > blocking bug that I'd really like to fix before doing a release. > > Thanks, > > Hans > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
