Hello, I'm running a PVR-350 on a 733mhz P3 with a 133mhz FSB, 512M of PC133 RAM and a heavily modified KnoppMyth R5A16. The TV record and TV playback capabilities are awsome! I really can't tell the difference between my TV recordings and the raw S-Vid output on my satellite receiver. The quality is really top notch!
However, if I want to play a DVD on the same system I start running into problems. Initially, I didn't even have XV support. Then I upgraded to ivtv 0.3.7b, and XV started working. Since, I've upgraded to ivtv 0.3.7d. The video frame quality is very good, but I'm still having playback problems. I've tried mplayer, xine, ogle, vlc, and I've quadrupal checked my DVD drive's settings (DMA, etc...). Basically, even though I'm using XV, all of these players + XFree86 chew up between 88% - 95% of my CPU consistently (according to `top`), and the DVD playback is usually jumpy, depending on how detailed the video is at any given time. I need to solve this problem, but I'm not 100% convinced that a faster CPU would completely solve the problem as this is still technically a beta quality driver. For those of you with a PVR 350 and faster P3 CPUs, what is really the minimum CPU requirement for DVD playback? And is the playback still jumpy? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
