Lan Barnes wrote: [snip]
I'm sorry, this is resolved. I got knowledgable advice that I could ignore the warning. Also, I "fixed" my color output issues by relenting and tuning the TV itself to have better color rendition from the signal it gets from the nVidia card ... sacrificing some color in the straight-through TV rendition. But we're using Myth more now, so so what?
I thought you were going to get a different video card. I have a spare nVidia MX440 AGP card you could borrow for testing purposes. It would be a direct swap with the MX4000 you currently have. No software changes required.
So my "big deals" now (too many quotes, but I don't have any real BIG deals with Myth, which is 90% there for my uses) are: - configuring remote front ends so we can all watch different things around the house (preventing use arguments). And there is some question on whether my 1.66 G CPU can handle a lot of this.
The backend only serves files and runs the database, neither of which are very taxing, unless you need to transcode, which you don't because you have a hardware encoder card.. The frontend does all the rendering of MPEG2 data to video, so only the frontend needs horsepower to display anything. An Original XBox with a Pentium 733MHz can render an MPEG2 data steam <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Xbox_Frontend>
- getting the DVD burner to actually burn DVDs, which apparently will take replacing the cheap-shit Asus board I went with (good time to get more punch in the CPU in that distant day when I have some actual money).
The board has little to do with burning a DVD. Just about any board can pump out data fast enough. You might have some other issues going on, like maybe DMA isn't being turned on for some reason
- Mastering editing, transcoding, and archiving to videos, which is a matter of rading and expermenting, which I'm doing as I can. But experimenting is hard because everybody wants to be using Myth.
All those activities can be done on a different box. After using MythTV for almost two years now, I'm convinced that the MythTV box should be a dedicated machine. When you need to do something else with the files, shove them to some other machine for the manipulation.
For example, I record all my shows on the MythTV box but if I want to save them to DVD I copy the file to my desktop and use the desktop to build the ISO file and burn the DVD using the desktop DVD burner. Besides, it's much easier to sit at my desk with its nice monitor and do computer stuff that sit in front of the TV to do computer stuff.
Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
