Alex Cruz wrote:
Great news on the DVB!! Now it's looking like you're where I was about 3
months ago which was "Do I continue using my workstation to mess with MythTV
or do I build a dedicated unit?" I decided to build the standalong and I'm
glad I did. Now, I'm not screwing up my workstation when I want to tweak Myth
or test something. And now that it's no longer a hardware issue, you might
want to just taking the plunge. My next step is to find a nicer looking case
and to get a quieter fan for the CPU. It's amazing how noisey those damn
little fans are :-)
-alex
I am starting to agree with all you say here !
but (sorry, there's always something) there was one tiny flaw in my
conclusion that it wasn't hardware. One difference I did not take into
account is that the ringbuffer was being to written to the ide drive,
not the SATA. I have found that I can provoke the glitches even in
Knoppmyth, by writing the ringbuffer to a temp directory on one of the
SATA drives instead of the IDE.
I now officially dislike SATA drives. This was my first machine using
them, and had all sorts of initial problems. Now this. Time to get a
nice big reliable IDE drive I think.
On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:53 am, ffrr wrote:
I got to thinking, maybe I could try knoppmyth fairly painlessly. I
found an old 15GB IDE drive from an old computer and plugged it into my
main machine. I downloaded the very latest knoppmyth (just announced
here in a message today), and quickly installed it. I didn't get all
the myth stuff going - like the tv guide etc, just enough to watch live TV.
BTW: it allowed me to import my channels.conf, a feature which people
here have said is not in the released mythtv version !!!
Anyway, the big discovery is... rock solid pictures. Not one single
damn glitch in sight, nor in the audio either :-)
Conclusions,
- it can't be signal strength related, so no point in buying a new card
- can't be interrupt related - not directly anyway as nothing has
changed in my hardware setup or BIOS
- kernel is 2.6.13.2, so maybe a newer kernel than the 2.6.11 I have now
might fix it (roll on Mandriva 2006 - or else I look at upgrading the
kernel - about which I know nothing--- yet)
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