I decided it would be fun to play with one of those small form factor ITX boards for a project. I was also wanting to build a MythTV box.....
I have now had the box working twice by using a a guide the "MythTV on a dedicated Eden/PVR350 Mythbox Walkthrough" at http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/myth/mythtv_debian_epia_pvr350_walkthrough The first time it worked for about two days and then had a few lockups and eventually got to where it would play video really slow and no audio. This was whether I was viewing live TV or a recording. Recordings still seemed to be working correctly, as copying them to another computer and playing seemed to work. I reran mythsetup several times with the same results. Manually using the dd test dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k works fine. I recently dusted the unit off to try again (note I had been using as a file server). Put the pvr350 back into the system and after two reboots had a clicking drive. The PVR350 card never was able to use the composite out (was using Svideo out). Since the drive was crashed I decided this was a good time to send everything back. Now I have redone everything from scratch with new drive and card. Again I had the system working. I was playing with adding some new models (I think I was most recently working on mythvideo). Rebooted and I am back to slow video no sound. I noticed a high cpu load and in the logs saw something about flagging for commercials. I turned this feature off which lowered the load while just running the backend, but mythfrontend consums all cpu when viewing video, almost as though the pvr350 hardware decorder is not being used, but I have checked and unchecked the appropriate. Since the card works using the basic ivtv testing setup. I assume the hardware is fine and that this is a software issue of some sort. I also dumped the myth database and went back through setup with no success. For a while I thought maybe the system was over heating as the pci angle bracket bends the card back over the top of the eden cpu area. I installed a fan which has lowered the temperature, but even after being off all night last night. I still get the slow playback. I also reset the bios settings. This is mythtv 0.16, ivtv driver 0.1.9, debian sarge 2.4.26 Any help would be appreciated. I am about to give up on the Eden and just grab another MB. At this point it all seems to be working except the cpu load issue, which is probably causing the slow video and no audio. -- Jonathan Moore Director of Technology Winfield Public Schools Office 620.221.5100 Fax 620.221.0508 Visit Winfield Public Schools at http://usd465.com ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
