[mythtv-users] mp3anywhere stops working during playback

[Michael Beauregard]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>Top-posting rearranged.
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>On Monday 03 November 2003 11:20, Michael Beauregard wrote:
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>>Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>>On Sunday 02 November 2003 12:07, Michael Beauregard wrote:
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>>>>I have managed to get the x10 "mp3 anywhere" wireless remote
>>>>working with lirc. It actually works fine with mythtv for
>>>>navigating the menus and such. However, as soon as I start
>>>>watching live tv or a recording mythtv no longer responds to the
>>>>remote. I read a warning from lirc.org (
>>>>http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html#bugs ) explaining that
>>>>heavy IDE activity can disable interrupts often enough to cause
>>>>signal decoding problems with lirc_serial and lirc_parallel
>>>>drivers. I'm not convinced that this is the problem since the lirc
>>>>mp3anywhere driver doesn't seem to use lirc_serial.
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone else experienced this problem? Anyone find a fix for it?
>>>>I've been scouring the web and mailing lists archives for a
>>>>solution for a week now and I am stuck.
>>>>
>>>>BTW, here is my setup:
>>>>Dual P3-450
>>>>PVR-250
>>>>Voodoo3 tv-out
>>>>Soundblaster live
>>>>MythTV 0.11
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>>>Are you using Myth's native LIRC support, or irxevent?
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>>>-JAC
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>>irxevent
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>Hmmm... my guess is you either have a problem with your .lircrc, or your 
>system is too bogged down during playback (unlikely).  Can you use the 
>keyboard to control playback without problems?  And can you post your 
>.lircrc?
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Keyboard works no problem every time. My .lircrc is simply a modified 
version of Jarod's sample .lircrc that he uses for pvr250. It has a few 
changes to a few codes and such, but otherwise nothing interesting to 
me. If you still want to see it, let me know. BTW, I'm not sure how much 
CPU usage I should be seeing on a dual 450 with PVR 250, but one cpu is 
usually near 90% and the other near 40%. My impression from other posts 
is that people with comparable hardware are not seeing this much cpu 
usage during livetv. Maybe it has something to do with this.

Also, I tried running the mythbackend as the mythtv user instead of root 
and it seemed to improve the situation significantly. I'll re-run the 
test both ways to check if I'm crazy or not. Either way, this remote 
kind of sucks. You have to hold the buttons down with lots of pressure 
for at least a second or two even for IR to my tv and vcr. I think I'll 
just switch to the grey remote and run an extension for the IR receiver 
that came with the PVR-250.

Michael.