After earler posts by Chris and others I just resigned that the lockups would never be fixed but the recent attention to the lockups is encouraging.
Both patched v's (the patch for v in an earlier post and the downloaded patch file), w, and x all give similar results. I would say the hard lockups are reduced but are definitely still there. However there is now many 'soft lockups' - that is. after a skip forward or back it will often freeze but another skip fwd or bck or a pause/play will unfreeze it. These soft freezes occur much more frequently than the hard lockups of earlier versions. I have been using the 0.2 series (for reasons I'll explain below) - the latest being 0.2.0-rc3i for almost a month. If I'm careful with the remote, letting the decoder resume decoding after a skip fwd/bck (per Chris's advice), I generally don't have a problem with lockups - there is just a very occassional unpredictable lockup (if I'm careful). Out of curiosity, I applied the patch for 0.3.2v that Chris inlined in a recent post to the 0.2.0-rc3i and it seems to show improvement. I still get the very occassional unpredictable lockup but I no longer have to be careful with the remote. However, with the 0.2 series I have another problem - the show stutters in live tv mode when I bring up the program guide. This problem has been discussed here as well. Normally this stuttering only starts after I've begun navigaiting through the program guide (causing it to scroll left/right/up/down) but with the patched 0.2.0-rc3i it is much worse and starts immediately when the program guide is displayed. The newer versions of the 0.3 series don't seem to have the program guide problem - at the time I was last deciding which version to use the 0.3 series also had the problem, but also the 0.3 series has another issue that caused me to settle on the 0.2 version. In 0.2, when I start playing a show (live tv or recorded) there is a brief black screen then the show starts. With 0.3 rather than going black I get a brief (second or so) static display of the last thing I had watched then the show starts. All else seeming equal, I liked the 0.2 behavior better and settled on 0.2. Matt --- Chris Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This has some more work beyond the patch I posted, I hope it fixes > this > better, please try this version and see if I succeeded any more in > making > it not freeze with osd/dec activity in Myth. > > http://www.ivtv.tv/ > > Also I posted some new information on the DMA registers for the > cx2341X chips. > > > Thanks, > Chris > -- > --- > Chris Kennedy / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Engineer KMOS-TV/KTBG-FM > Broadcasting Services Department > Central Missouri State University > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real > users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
