John H., First off, nice work on the X driver. It's pretty incredible to see the progress that is being made by everyone in the ivtv development group, as well as those that are developing MythTV.
Here's my setup: P4 2.4Ghz Celeron Gentoo Linux, 2.6.10 kernel, Xorg, KDE 3.3 MythTV Backend/Frontend 0.18.1 (VBI turned off) 1 PVR-350 and 2 PVR-250MCE's ivtv-0.3.6c X-driver ver 10.1 TV-Out thru the 350 (NTSC) Everything has been running wonderfully. TV recordings are great. Playback thru the 350 of TV recordings is great. When I playback XVid, DivX, etc. recordings through MythVideo are working much better with your new X driver (before playing I intialize the decoder by playing back a TV recording in MythTV). However, I've noticed the following: - First I playback a tv recording to initialize the 350 decoder. I can pause, ff, rew, etc. with instant results. - I then go to MythVideo and playback recordings of various types. They playback very well. I can start and stop them one right after the other. I use mplayer to play them back and customize the command based on the video that I am playing to get the correct aspect, etc. 'mplayer -fs -vo xv -vf scale=720:-3,expand=720:480 <file>' and 'mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv <file>' are the two commands that I have employed in playback, depending on the video file. - When I go back to watching tv recordings after playing videos, things become unstable. When I try to pause, ff, rew, etc. I have to wait a couple of seconds for the system to respond. If I don't wait the system will become unresponsive and the video continues to play without the ability to stop via key commands and/or via the remote. I have to kill Mythfrontend to get it to stop. Restarting the frontend doesn't fix the problem. - If I exit the tv recording successfully and then try to play a video in MythVideo right afterword, I get sound but no video playback. - Rebooting fixes everthing It seems as though something is not getting reset properly. I don't know whether it is the way that MythTV interacts with the drivers, the X driver or ivtv that is the problem. Unfortunately I don't have any logs to give you at the moment. Please let me know and I will send you any information that may help point out where the problem may exist. Unfortunately I am at work so it will be a few hours or so before I get home. Thanks, Jim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
