[mythtv-users] Re: Problem with MythTv 0.14 and bttv 0.9.12 (or kernel 2.6.1)!

[gkanis at cems.umn.edu]

Ok,
let me answer some of your questions. I have to admit that I do not know the 
answer to many of your questions.

dmesg gives this:
bttv0: skipped frame. no signal? high irq latency? 
[main=d519000,o_vbi=ad1d000,o_field=d519020,rc=ad1d01c]

The above messge is repeated for about 20 times and then dmesg gives
bttv0: timeout: irq=398675/398691, risc=0ad1c07c, bits: HSYNC OFLOW FDSR
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (71164)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (75444)

I thought that in previous versions of MythTv (0.13) I was able to use mouse. 
However, there have been a couple of months since the last time, so you know 
better :-)

About the image and that sometimes it is dark.
Capture Card: Ati Wonder VE
video output device: no idea?
xv picture controls enabled: no idea?

Watching LiveTv uses 50% of the CPU capacity.
I recorded a movie and transcode used 60% of CPU capacity (but I think that 
this is normal).

It seems to me that I was not very helpfull. With some guidance, I can however 
provide all the informations that you need.

Thank you,
Vasilis


On Monday 02 February 2004 10:35 pm, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2004, at 7:12 PM, gkanis at cems.umn.edu wrote:
> > I was lucky. I managed to watch LiveTv with MythTv, but I do have some
> > problems:
> >
> > 1) I am stiill getting messages when I run dmesg
>
> Such as?
>
> > 2) I am not able to use mouse when I run Mythfrontend to select the
> > icons, I
> > can move around with the keys, only.
>
> That's how it always works.
>
> > 3) When I select watch Tv, most of the times, the image is dark,
> > difficult to
> > watch Tv. If I change channel, the image is back to normal, however.
>
> No clue what's going on there. However, for anyone to be of much help,
> you need to include more details, like what capture card you're using,
> what video output device you're using, whether you have Xv picture
> controls enabled, etc... While you may have put some of that in a
> previous message in another thread, there's no guarantee everyone who
> might try to help read any of your prior messages (especially when you
> were kinda spamming the list up... :-).
>
> > 4) Finally, MythFrontend takes about 50% of CPU capacity. BTW, I have
> > P4 at
> > 2.4 Mhz. Is this normal.
>
> When sitting idle? While playing back video? Using mpeg2, mpeg4, mpeg8?
> While recording four streams at once? What video output device? Again,
> more details required...
>
> > DMA is enabled for the hdd I am using.
>
> Good.
>
> > I would also like to apologize for all my previous annoying emails. i
> > had no
> > intention to abuse the mailing list, I was just frustrated (not with
> > you),
> > with my TVCard, Linux, etc and with the fact that I could not use
> > MythTv to
> > watch,record my favourites movies.
>
> Patience, grasshopper. ;-)