On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:42:11AM +0000, David Watkins wrote: > On 20/12/05, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hey folks, just set up a new myth box on a PII Celeron 400Mhz box with > > 512Megs of memory. > > mythtv ~ # uname -a > > Linux mythtv 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 #3 PREEMPT Thu Dec 15 17:57:43 EST 2005 i686 > > Celeron (Mendocino) Genui > > neIntel GNU/Linux > > > > Ive got: mythtv-0.18.1-r1 and ivtv-0.4.0-r2 installed. The gui menu comes > > up fine, but when I > > "watch tv", the cpu utilzation for mythfrontend goes up to 70-80%, and the > > actual video on the TV is > > choppy every second or so. Ive got xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 with the ivtvdev_drv > > for the tv-out. > > > > Make sure that you've enabled the PVR 350 output in mythfrontend > setup. I can't remember where it is because I've not used my PVR 350 > since version 0.16, but there's a tickbox somewhere, probably under > General or Playback.
Ive doublechecked this and this is selected.. when I start mythtv as the mythtv user, In an Xwindow on a remote system, I get the following output.. Im guessing its because Im displaying it over X, but when I watch on tv, I get the same bad video/audio performance.. 2005-12-21 20:35:36.620 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-12-21 20:35:36.635 Using protocol version 15 2005-12-21 20:35:36.735 Using protocol version 15 2005-12-21 20:35:39.128 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-12-21 20:35:39.129 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display "localhost:12.0". XvQueryExtension failed. Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display "localhost:12.0". XvQueryAdaptors failed. *** * Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to non-Xv mode. * MythTV performance will be much slower since color * conversion and scaling will be done in software. * Consider upgrading your video card or X server if * you would like better performance. *** * No XShm support found, MythTV may be very slow and consume lots of cpu. Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display "localhost:12.0". Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display "localhost:12.0". 2005-12-21 20:35:39.267 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-12-21 20:35:40.015 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-12-21 20:35:40.051 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display "localhost:12.0". Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display "localhost:12.0". 2005-12-21 20:35:40.558 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait 2005-12-21 20:35:40.990 prebuffering pause 2005-12-21 20:35:41.864 prebuffering pause 2005-12-21 20:35:42.787 prebuffering pause 2005-12-21 20:35:43.739 prebuffering pause * Your system is not capable of displaying the * full framerate at 600x400 resolution. Frames * will be skipped in order to keep the audio and * video in sync. 2005-12-21 20:35:45.491 prebuffering pause 2005-12-21 20:35:46.778 prebuffering pause 2005-12-21 20:35:47.960 prebuffering pause 2005-12-21 20:35:48.986 prebuffering pause Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display "localhost:12.0". Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display "localhost:12.0". 2005-12-21 20:35:49.617 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-12-21 20:35:49.989 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None regards, Jason
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