[mythtv-users] HD-PVR: Answers requested

John P Poet jppoet at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 23:29:59 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:00 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 08:46:52AM -0700, Robert McNamara wrote:
>> most cases.  Because of the alpha nature of all of this, there is no
>> processor that one can *guarantee* will play all HD-PVR recording
>> smoothly.  A high-spec dual core processor is a fairly good bet,
>> especially with forthcoming changes to libavcodec.  A 3.0 Ghz should
>
> Robert, do you have any idea when those libavcodec changes will be
> ready?  I've tried to follow Alexander Strange's GSoC project by
> checking the ffmpeg mailing list archives every few weeks.  The last
> time I checked, it looked like things were working well but I assume
> all of those changes are still in a GSoC branch of ffmpeg and will
> have to be merged into their trunk before other projects like MythTV
> can start using them.
>
>> Requirement of Windows for firmware install:
>>
>> Yes, this will eventually change when firmware loading is implemented
>> in the driver.  No ETA on this.
>
> When I got my HD-PVR, I saw this in the wiki but decided to first try
> without doing it since I didn't have convenient access to a Windows
> box.  I was able to make recordings and run some other simple tests
> without loading any firmware.  Is loading the firmware still necessary
> or is my Rev C2 HD-PVR a refurbished C1 that someone else had already
> initialized?  I suspect the latter but haven't had time to
> investigate.  I hope to get back to messing with my HD-PVR next week.

All of the "rev c2" units come with the firmware already loaded, so
hooking it up to a Micro$oft box is not necessary.

John
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