I've had great success with my PVR350's TV-Out and John Harvey's latest X driver (10.5). On rare occasions I've had lockups of the PVR350 decoder (encoder was still pumping away) requiring a reboot to fix. I had one the other day, but I think it was caused by something that was being executed in my cron jobs (cron job kicked off at the same time my wife was ff/rew a recording in MythTV). Dmesg reported "firmware not found" errors. I made some changes to my cron jobs to have them run at times when we are not likely to be watching a recording. Hopefully that was this issue and I will no longer see any lockups.
My main MythTV system has 1 PVR350 and 2 PVR250MCE's (NTSC) in it. I have a slave backend with 1 PVR350 and 2 PVR150MCE's in it. All are interacting without any problems. Recordings have been rock solid on all encoders. All recordings are being held on the main machine. I am using 0.3.7i of the ivtv driver (will be upgrading to j later tonight). I have also been transcoding some of my DVD's into Xvid files and playing them back using xine and mplayer along with JH's X driver (10.5) with great success (of course you have to play back an mpeg2 file first to initialize the decoder - which I am doing upon bootup). Scaling has been great and quality excellent (by my standards). My MythTV boxes have been running 24/7 without any problems with respect to encodings (even when all 6 cards are recording at the same time). I also have them (and my networking hardware0 plugged into UPS's for those pesky brownouts that happen on occasion. As noted above, the only time I have ever had lockups is on the decoder when doing ff/rew, which could be related to other interferences (I will submit more info the next time it happens - if it happens). Props to all the ivtv and MythTV developers/contributors! Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:32 PM To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [ivtv-devel] Re: Dumb YUV, MythTV question? Thanks Nick. I've been messing with my 250/350 for at least a year and a half. After I got it fairly stable I just quit messing with it (otherwise the wife got mad at me haha). Things just seem to be maturing to where it might be worth a try again. It would be nice to see if I can get the size of my recordings down a bit. Any other success stories out there? ---Dan ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
