On Tuesday 11 January 2005 14:29, BARKER, Paul wrote: > Hello all > > If you read my posts of last week you'll remember that I've been trying to > build a frontend on an Epia M10K system to replace my current large > frontend box that used to be a combined fe/be. > > I'm having big problems trying to get live TV and recordings to run without > either audio out of sync messages (which results in dropped frames) or > prebuffering pauses. > > The current fe is an Athlon XP1800 with 512Mb of RAM and my LiveTV > recording profile is full PAL res at 720X576. (The b/e uses a PVR250) > > On the Epia box if I try to watch live TV or a recording recorded at this > resolution I get choppy playback. If I drop the resolution to 360x576 > things are pretty smooth. My CPU isn't pegged and I've turned off swap, > switched to alsa and upgraded to the latest alsa kernel mods all as > suggested in different posts on this list. I'm intending to use MythCVS so > I can use the CLE266 h/w mpeg stuff and have tried various builds of the > Unichrome drivers and MythCVS with varying results. I've also put another > soundcard in and disabled the onboard sound. I'm at a point where I seem > close to getting this to fly but it's taking up rather a large amount of > time. > > I guess my basic questions are > > 1) Is anyone out there running Myth using the Unichrome drivers on an M10K > and using native PAL resolution without problems ? > 2) If yes do you use the onboard sound ? > 3) Am I in overkill land with the 720 x 576 recording profiles ? (I was > trying to minimise any filtering or scaling) > > If I know this *should* work and is possible I'll keep plugging away but > I'd like to know if I should just stop banging my head on the brick wall > and switch to a lower resolution ;-) > > Cheers > > Paul > 1/ Yes This page was very helpful http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=24597&group_id=%20102048 xorg is set up as per http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/unichromeTvOut.html
2/ Yes. No problem at all. 3/ My back end uses DVB cards which operate at 720x576 and so needs no scaling. CPU load is 15% for playing live TV or recordings. You do not mention your distro. Mine is running on Mandrake 10.1 using RPMs I made from CVS. derek _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
