[mythtv-users] PVR 350 DVD playback quality

[Cenk Ozkan]

Mike,

Thanks for the info. That look really promising. However, I have tried
installing it and now have broken X :) Have you got any instructions on
getting the patch working (what to apply the patch against etc). I have
downloaded the source and did a make and make install in the /driver and
/utils directories. I have also tried:

install -c -m 0444 ivtvdev_drv_o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o

and

install -c -m 0444 ivtvdev_drv.o-09
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o

X is now stuck on welcome screen. A howto would be appreciated.

Thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael Papazoglou
Sent: 25 May 2005 04:11
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 DVD playback quality

> Hi all,
>
> I am running a 0.18-1 system installed by following Jarod Wilsons 
> instructions on Fedora Core 3. I am nearly there with it all except 
> for problems with DVD playback. I am using the PVR 350 card and using 
> its out for everything. I have gone with Xine instead of mplayer 
> because of dvd menus. When I play dvd's they appear to be ok but on 
> all fast moving scenes the picture turns choppy and produces black 
> bars (not sure how else to describe it, sorry). I am using Xshm with 
> Xine as everything else is really slow. My PC is a P4 2.8Ghz with HT, 
> 1 GB Ram. My ivtv drivers are 0.3.4w from atrpms. Any help would be 
> appreciated. Please let me know if any further info is needed.

Cenk,

Check out this thread at the ivtv-devel list:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/

John Harvey has added Xvideo support to the X11 driver for ivtv, which makes
DVD playback much smoother.  I'm using ivtv-0.3.5f, and for dvd playback I
use xine -f -V xv dvd://

Mike