> > Scott, > > Which driver you use is dictated by the video card being > used, and the capabilities of the driver for that card. You > will not use all of these drivers (that xine supports) with > all cards. I would suggest using x11 and xshm for > non-acclerated cards, and xv for accelerated cards (or xvmc > if the driver supports that). > > Having read this thread, I am assuming that your video card > does not have TV-Out support, or that it does and you are not > happy with it.. > When I originally installed my system last year after months > of lurking in the various mailing lists, I tried to get > everything working over the PVR-350 card. Live TV and > recorded program played perfectly (in terms of quality, but > not system speed), but I had problems playing back DVDs and > virtually all DivX and XVid video files with MythVideo > because of the missing acceleration in the ivtv X driver.. > > My other big problem was the the TVout support for my video > card (integrated Radeon 9100IGP) was nonexistent except for a > binary hack a determined user had come up with for an old > version of the driver. > Couple of weeks back ATI released their latest driver and > another hack was crafted to again get working TVout for the > 9100 card, so I gave it a whirl. > > I decided to bite the bullet finally and go for *what works today*. > Using the TVout of the video card and not the PVR-350 (on a > celeron D 2.4G/512MB system) everything came alive after I > had moved away from the ivtv non-accelerated X driver. > Playback of video and seeking within myth is now *much* > snappier. The system actually responds instantly unlike > before when seeking ahead in recordings could take 30s or > more. Mythvideo now plays all videos perfectly (using xv and > alsa) and no problems yet with mythDVD either. > > This has also finally got the WAF sorted out - as a nerd is > was cool to be able to use the 350 for all output, but as > >50% of the time the system is used for non > live/recorded-mythtv is was severely hampering its > usefulness. Now I have a fully functioning myth box that does > everything I want it to and no more nagging *why doesn't this > work* ... > > I'm still hoping the ivtv X driver will get xv support at > some point in the future after Hauppauge reveal more of their > secrets and will get it going again if this is the case, but > at the moment I am more happy to have everything working and > no more stress *trying* to get it to work using solely the 350 output. > > The 'third way' is to run mythtv over your video card's > tv-out and employ the decoder on the 350 for live tv and > recordings via another connection to your TV\VCR. This will > then give top notch playback quality of TV through the 350, > and accelerated playback of everything else via your video card. > > HTH, > Nick
Nick, this is awesome info, thanks. You are 100% correct that my video card doesn't not have a TV out connector. I've been stubbornly trying to get all output to work from the PVR-350. So I understand correctly, are you saying in your configuration you watch all live tv via the PVR-350 (in and out) and then any recorded programs use the non-PVR-350 video card?
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