[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV : Little Sleep, Lots Of Reading...I Failed.

[Tako Schotanus]

Dont' forget you own comments Isaac ;-)

<quote>

> System is a VIA M-10000 running RedHat 9, all Myth stuff comes from
> yesterday's CVS (but the problem was the same with 0.8, in fact it was
> the reason to try the CVS version).
>   

The kernel driver for the audio on those boards is broken.  You need to 
use latest ALSA, with the 'dxs_support=3' option when you load the 
snd-via82xx module, to get things to work properly.

</quote>

So sometimes it *is* necessary.

Only teasing Isaac :-)

I agree with you  that having one good document that explains everything 
to everybody is what we should aim for, but you know yourself that 
posting patches to the docs won't necessarily mean that they will be 
changed the next hour or so, while at the same moment complete tribes of 
people are trying out the software and having lots of problems. And I 
for myself can vouch for the problems I have encountered because of 
wrong or unclear documentation. So these pages by third parties are 
necessary to get everything to work. The help of people on this lists 
notwithstanding I would not have been able to get MythTV to the point it 
is now (still no Live TV though ;-) without the help of several such pages.

I also agree that these pages themselves will have problems, but in the 
end the most important thing is to have options to try out when things 
just don't want to work.

My 2c.

Cheers,
 -Tako



Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Monday 09 June 2003 07:26 am, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>  
>
>>And I assure you that my notes are far better for someone attempting to
>>install MythTV under Red Hat Linux 9 with a WinTV PVR-250 than the
>>documentation on the MythTV web site, even if they aren't
>>"authoritative."
>>    
>>
>
>You have a number of inaccuracies in your docs, btw.
>
>- ALSA is not required at all for things to run, there's no reason to make it 
>look like it is.  The only reason that it's recommended for most setups is 
>that the drivers generally work better than the kernel drivers.
>- Using lirc on the pvr cards does not use the serial modules, so your stated 
>reason for forcing a recompile of the kernel is wrong.
>- A better bitrate peak would be 4000, not 8000, for an average rate of 2500.  
>Having the peak bitrate too high can cause problems.
>- If you don't want it to capture at 480x480, why don't you just go into the 
>recording options and change the resolution there?  Also, if you're going to 
>tell people to blindly change to NTSC and the 4th input on the card, you 
>should at least show how to get the correct numbers for those by using the 
>querying commands (-n to list the inputs, -s to list the video standards).
>
>Also, I would very much prefer that you submit patches to the existing docs to 
>Robert, instead of writing your own.
>
>Isaac
>
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