[mythtv-users] frontend hardware - any reason not to use ion?

Johnny Walker johnnyjboss at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 16:39:20 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, David Asher <asherml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:32 AM, Fred Squires wrote:
>>
>> A few tips:
>> You'll need to go into the bios to increase the memory for the video
>> card. With 1 GB you can only move it up to 256, I added an extra gig
>> so I could go up to 512. I didn't notice any problems with 256, but I
>> only tested a few videos.
>
> I'll add/second that tip: if you want to use the pretty fanart, coverart,
> etc, you NEED the 2GB.  At least in the current state, my mythfrontend
> memory usage balloons quite easily, with 256MB allocated for video, 1GB just
> doesn't hack it.  Add to that the reports that 256MB is borderline for
> playback, 2GB is the way to go.  Luckily my two Revo 1600's both came with
> only one SO-DIMM slot populated, so it was just adding another.  Kinda
> tricky getting the case apart, however.
>
> I upgraded to 2GB and 512MB and everything works pretty well.  I did have to
> set it up so every night mythfrontend restarts because the memory still
> seems to get out of hand.  I haven't had a chance to debug why.  My theory
> is the image cache doesn't get fanart/coverart images removed so it grows
> continuously, but I haven't checked to code to see.

I've got a stock Revo 1600 and I get aliasing problems when the image
is panning - especially if there's a fence, prison bars, or vertical
stripes of any sort in the picture.

If I simply increase the ram to 2gb the bios will start allowing me to
allocate 512 to the onboard video?

-JJ


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