Well, It all seems to be working! (more or less)

Because I'm on FC6, I had to recompile the X driver (SVN version
compiles against the modular Xorg 7.1 ok) , which I had to use
--prefix=/usr for configure to get it to install in the proper place for
FC6.

I had to recompile mythtv (from SVN) along with a patch for PPC w/o
altivec (configure options --prefix=/usr --disable-altivec
--enable-xvmc):

from Eric Gilbert
> Take a look at my partial writeup on the
> Kuro Wiki http://www.kurobox.com/mwiki/index.php/Mythtv to get a patch
> for the .20-fixes branch.  I based that patch on feedback from the
> Kuro forum that pointed me to changeset 11203 here
> http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/11203. If you need to patch svn
> you probably only need to apply the last hunk of the patch related to
> cpu_state.c
> 
> Good luck,
> Eric

After all that, I had to downgrade my ATrpms ivtv packages to 0.10.0
(along with an older video4linux-kmdl package for the 2.6.19-1.2911
kernel) since there seems to be some question as to the proper API now
that V4L is taking over the kernel module part.

Now I get (mostly) everything working, except for the X has messed-up
colors related to endian issues (what patches are out there for the
latest ivtv_xdriver?).

My machine is only a 300MHz G3 (ppc750), but it can record a single
channel without much cpu load.  I'm getting some pauses during playback,
but those may be related to other system settings.

Cool!

Thanks to all,
Henry

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 13:57 -0500, Ricardo Lugo wrote:
> Henry,
> 
> I'm currently using ivtv-0.10.0 on PPC and it works very well!
> 
> 0.10.0 is the first version of ivtv to fully support PPC (DMA, fb,  
> and all).
> 
> The xdriver binary on the wiki was compiled for Xorg 6.9, and I  
> believe FC6 has the modular Xorg so you'll need to recompile the  
> xdriver. Unfortunately the new xdriver sources that John Harvey  
> released does not have the Big-Endian patches necessary for a normal  
> color scheme, so maybe I can go through the big-endian patches and  
> fix up the new xdriver. But the only last problem with that is  
> MythTV's PVR-350 output - myth writes directly to the framebuffer so  
> the colors are messed up and its a bit quirky. But you can use MythTV  
> on the TV-out with the right version of the xdriver and XV and it  
> will work perfectly.

> - Rick



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