[mythtv-users] Re: saa7134 - works on xawtv, mythbackend gives errors

[Ben Bucksch]

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

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>Cool, that mostly fixed it.
>
great.

>(although /dev/dsp should have been readable and
>writable by my mythtv user, so I don't know what the problem was).
>
The backend runs as account "mythtv" for me.

>Audio is *really* bad quality compared to passing through the sound card
>like xawtv does, but I guess that's a hardware limitation.
>
No, I also have a saa7134 card and it works relatively well for me 
(modulo the mp3 compression, I guess). I had a hard time get audio 
working, though, see a post by me on the list(s) some time ago, search 
for "saa7134".

>* Does anyone have a suggestion of how to remove the GNOME panel and
>  window decorations from the TV window under GNOME 1.4 and IceWM?
>
Use another window manager, e.g. blackbox.

>* There should be the ability to manually record, without having to
>  select a program from the program guide.
>
Feature added to CVS version.

>Since I don't have XMLTV for Australia
>
Somebody on the xmltv-dev list just volunteered to write one :).