I've just gotten over live tv locking up on me. I had to do with me trying to capture a bigger quality image than IVTV was set to.
For NTSC the highest is 720x480. You need to make sure your capture range is within that in myth. Try running "ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480" then set your myth capture settings. If your in a PAL country, you're on your own. BTW, make sure that your card is not in use at the time that you run ivtvctl ( no recordings going on ) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maverick Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drive Question Yeah, I've considered using a drive quieting rig of some sort. A little googling and I found the craziest of things, including suspending the drive in "bungee cords" or other elastic material, foam of all types, aluminum plates sandwiched around the drive, etc. Unfortunately my myth case is a small Dell GX110, which is an older desktop case that has a micro cdrom and little space. I put the 3.5" drive I had in it where the floppy was, and I think I'm starting to cook it. Maybe why the drive is acting up... In other news, I did some more testing on my myth drive (ie ran badblocks), and everything checks out ok. But the machine is locking up big time with just a few seconds of watching tv. It wasn't doing this at all, then started last week. I ran fsck (well, it actually ran by itself on boot) and it found some serious errors which I told it to ignore/fix and then it rewrote the messed up blocks, I'm assuming marking the old ones bad. Repeated runnings of fsck and badblocks find nothing, so in theory, all should be fine, right?. But still crashes/locks up/sometimes seg faults if I watch tv for a minute or two. I should probably install a second drive and mount /myth on it to confirm it's the hd, huh? Has anyone had crazy unstable-ness like this as a result of mythfrontend/backend itself? In 10+ years of Unix/Linux experience, I've never had a Linux box completely lock up (from software) before. If it was running Windows, well, the explanation would be so much simpler... :) -Kenneth On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:35:45 -0600, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want take a look at > > http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=8&Product_ID=198&CATID=1 > > ($63.95) > Its basically a solid aluminum enclosure for your drive. You need a > 5.25 slot to make it work. It works partly by being so massive that > vibrations are reduced. I don't have one. I started to buy one (or > something similar) after my last drive got cooked in my Silentdrive > enclosure, but didn't want to spend the money on that. That was > basically a plastic case with sound absorbtion material. In short it > was little more than an oven, which explains why that drive got RMA'd > about 10 months after I bought it. > > Disclaimer: I have never purchased from that site. The result was > found using google. > > > Maverick wrote: > > >Thanks for all your replies. I agree that the cost benefits don't > >really make sense, but I'm willing to do it if it would make that big > >of a deal. It sounds like it won't... > > > >I did some searching and found this: > > > >http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html > > > >They list drives made by Samsung as having quiet performance. Newegg > >has (what appears to be a newer model of) them: > > > >http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-014&depa=1 > > > >How about recommendations in the 3.5" arena, since 2.5" seems > >cost/performance prohibitive? > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > >
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