From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 27 17:37:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A955216A403 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:37:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A13413C47C for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:37:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JAY00DUL0XT6SD0@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:37:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no ([80.203.66.169]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with SMTP id <0JAY007A80XT3MJ1@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:37:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:37:04 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH In-reply-to: To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-id: <20061227183704.374658c3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.10 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: Subject: Re: MythTV port X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:37:06 -0000 Hello, On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:04:17 -0500 Scott Spare wrote: > usleepless, torfinn, et al: > I have hardware and can test a MythTV port as needed. Great! We need more testers. Remember, I'm just a tester too, so any information I might have is based on what I have been able to pick up from developers and other users. > One machine is a 600mhz PIII with 384MB ram and ATI TV Wonder. > The other is a 2GHz PIV with 512 and Hauppauge PVR-150 Machines: both look fine to me. TV Cards: The PVR-150 should be fine, use the pvrxxx port as a driver. I don't know about the ATI TV Wonder. I think (somebody correct me if I'm wrong here) MythTV requires a v4l or v4l2 api to the driver (at least an api with most of the functions). > Let me know what I can do to help. Are you familiar with MythTV? If not, are you prepared to spend some time fiddling with it? It might take you a few hours, or even a few evenings to get a working setup. But in the end it is worth it. AFAIK, the situation is like this: the MythTV port is created, but there are not many success reports yet. Perhaps because not a lot of people have tried it yet, or perhaps because the port has problems. We know that usleep is using his own modified version of MythTV - that doesn't count as a positive report for the MythTV port, unless usleep also have tested the port. I would guess that the port works for Greg (the author of the port), but I don't really know. Comments to clear up this confusion is welcome. Anyway, I suggest that you install the port and try to see what you get from it. If both of your machines are "free" (or you have a spare hard drive), perhaps you could installe KnoppMyth (http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html) on the PIII machine, that way you would have a working "reference" machine to check out Myth-related questions. Note: I see that the web page mentions KnoppMyth R5D1 (uss MythTV 0.19-fixes), but R5E50 have just been announced on the mythtv-users mailinglist: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/242706 As this is based on MythTV 0.20-fixes, it is closer to the MythTV port we have right now. FWIW, I'm still running KnoppMyth R5D1 on my main MythTV backend. It is in production, so I will upgrade it later, when I'm mentally ready. :-) HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway