[mythtv-users] G400-TV, a few problems.

[nick]

Hi all,

I know some of you are using this card, so I figured I'd check in here 
for some help.  I've been using MythTV for a few weeks now with onboard 
video, and it's been good so far (except for some poor performance due 
to the Savage video driver).  Last night I installed a G400-TV to act 
both as a second tuner and as my main display device.

I followed the instructions in the G200-HOWTO here, and output is 
working beautifully; much crisper than the onboard TV-out on my 
motherboard.  Unfortunately, I've run into 3 problems, none of which 
I've been able to solve by banging my head against them, so if anyone 
has any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate it.  Here they are, listed in 
order of importance:


1. When trying to use Hardware MJPEG encoding in my Live TV profile, I 
get a blank screen (as if live TV tries to start) and lots of messages 
on the console about "Audio buffer overflow!  Audio stream data lost" 
and such.  I also received some messages, at one point, about 
ThreadedWrite failing, but I haven't been able to reproduce those this 
morning.  RTJPEG and MPEG4 seem to work just fine here, but hardware 
encoding is a no-go.  Changing the audio codec or parameters doesn't 
change anything.

2. When running MAME from Mythgame, coming back from certain 
resolutions causes it to lose sync badly, seem to flip video modes for 
about 30 seconds, and finally decides to restart X (logs out the 
current user, dumps back to the X "hash" screen, and kdm starts up).  I 
can't for the life of me explain this, but it definitely never happened 
before.

3. The G400 TV tuner isn't detected, no matter what I do.  I've got 
another tuner in there, so this isn't the biggest deal, but PIP would 
be nice.  When I use the tuner.o built from marvel.sourceforge.net, my 
existing tuner is still detected as the only tuner, except it doesn't 
work (won't tune any channels).  When I use the tuner.o built with my 
kernel, the existing WinTV Pro is detected correctly and works.  In 
both cases, the Philips tuner in the G400 is not detected, and does not 
work.  /dev/video1 (where I would imagine it should be) is not a device.


Any thoughts on these would be greatly appreciated.


thanks,
Nick