[mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Freevo

Jason Tackaberry tack at auc.ca
Fri Apr 11 15:18:42 UTC 2003


Thanks.  I'll give that a shot tonight.

-Shawn

J.D. Bakker wrote:

> [I left in most of the original post to make future archive searches 
> easier]
>
> At 0:00 -0800 06-04-2003, sedwards at theedwards.org wrote:
>
>> I've been running myth for quite a while.  Good stuff.  Thanks to all 
>> for all the great work.
>> I am getting this error anytime I try to view live or recorded video 
>> (recent system change: new sound card that uses the es1371 driver 
>> instead of the i810_audio driver):
>> mythtv at puck:~/MC$ mythbackend
>> Starting up as the master server.
>> Probed: /dev/video - Television
>> Probed: /dev/video - Composite1
>> Probed: /dev/video - S-Video
>> Probed: /dev/video - Composite3
>> adding: puck as a player 1
>> adding: puck as a player 0
>> adding: puck as a player 0
>> adding: puck as a remote ringbuffer
>> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>> lame error '-3', exiting
>> mythtv at puck:~/MC$
>> Since it's not seg-faulting, I'm not sure if a backtrace would even 
>> be reasonable.
>> I've always used the oss drivers for no particular reason and they've 
>> never been a problem before.  I can convert to alsa if that's the way 
>> to solve the problem.
>
>
> It is. I had the same problem: a two-tuner setup which would produce 
> this error anytime I tried to use the second tuner. After updating 
> everything else it dawned on me that the in-kernel audio drivers might 
> not be the Way To Go. This afternoon I installed ALSA and everything 
> seems just fine.
>
> The ALSA-relevant portions of my (backend) modules.conf:
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa-jdb
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 # on-board sound
> alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371  # SoundBlaster 4.1 Digital
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
> alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa-jdb
>
> Details of my setup (if anyone cares):
>
> Backend:
> - ASUS A7N8X with an Athlon XP 2400+ (clocked as rated)
> - 2x256MB PC3200 CL2 DDR running at 133/266MHz (turned out to be fastest)
> - 4x Maxtor 120MB 7200RPM in RAID-5
> - 2x ancient Bt848-based tuner cards (PAL)
> - on-board i810-compatible audio (dsp0), ess1371-driven SoundBlaster 
> 4.1 (dsp1)
> - kernel 2.4.21-pre5-ac3, *without* extra nForce2-patches
> - Debian Sarge (was Woody)
> - capturing MPEG-4 default settings @ 576x576 (PAL, remember).
>   With only one tuner recording this leaves the CPU >70% idle
>
> Frontend:
> - Pentium III 800, soon replaced by a Celeron 1.3GHz
> - a very tiny case/mobo combo I found on eBay
> - chipset: SiS630E.
>   Big drawback: shared RAM. Stay away from this if at all possible, it 
> *really* hurts DVD/mplayer performance. I hope the beefier Celeron 
> allows me to lose some stutters
> - 128MB CompactFlash root file system, everything else is NFS-mounted 
> from the backend. No spinning disk = very quiet.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> JDB.




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