Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:37:04 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MythTV port Message-ID: <20061227183704.374658c3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <daaab7120612270604v23beab08kfcd95d3ae2ad56e6@mail.gmail.com> References: <daaab7120612270604v23beab08kfcd95d3ae2ad56e6@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:04:17 -0500 Scott Spare <scuppers@gmail.com> 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
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