[mythtv-users] Acer Revo 1600 success story

John Luber john at luberfamily.net
Sun Jan 17 14:51:16 UTC 2010


Timbo wrote:
> I just got my Acer Revo 1600 working with my pre-existing single MBE 
> and thought I would share with the list, for others and myself if I 
> need to refer back to it. I didn't find a clear overall guide and I 
> ended up following a several various guide's advice. Hopefully someone 
> in my same situation will find this and save the surfing.
>
> I'm trying to get into HD recording and playback and wanted to add a 
> HD capable FE to the system and a HDHomerun. The Revo appears to be 
> working fine, the HDHomerun still needs some attention. Got it 
> yesterday, quite small, even compared to the mini-itx system it 
> replaced. It's quiet! My old system was a noise beast compared to 
> this. Plugged it up and booted it directly into the TV on HDMI with no 
> issues into pre-installed XP. XP worked with HDMI out of the box 
> outputting 1080p, had to set TV to HDMI mode 2 or something to get the 
> image to not be larger than the screen. Had to also set audio output 
> to HDMI per included instructions for sound playback. Decided to keep 
> XP since I didn't need the space for a FE only system.
>
> Used Unetbootin to create mythbuntu 9.10 boot USB stick. - fairly self 
> explanatory, used mythbuntu x86 iso to create it
> Used GParted to repartition disk to preserve XP (didn't know mythbuntu 
> has repartitioning built in). - again fairly intuitive
> Installed with USB drive after using F12 for boot select menu.
> Upgraded memory by adding a 2nd 1GB stick. Remove one screw on base 
> where stand slides into. The break was not cleanly between the black 
> side and the white center, trust me, I tried hard until I search for a 
> youtube clip. The break point was along the groove along the face-side 
> edge of the white center. The non-power button side is the one to 
> remove. Memory pops in at an angle and THEN swings down onto the clips.
> Set video memory from AUTO to 512 in BIOS after the memory upgrade.
> MythTV sound didn't work without fiddling. First used mixer from menu 
> to enable IEC958 (can also been done from terminal and command 
> alsamixer, arrow over and hit m to get 00 to show unmuted). That 
> didn't work, no sound until I went into playback options and selected 
> HDMI output for audio, not sure if the mixer changes were ultimately 
> needed as well.
> Set to use VDPAU by going to Settings->Settings->TV->Playback and a 
> few screens over selected 'VDPAU High Quality' from CPU selection.
> StreamZap PC remote needed its usual fiddling with and setting up NFS 
> shares for Pictures, Music, and MythVideo and I was done.
>
> All in all, impressed. I'm sure I got somethings not exactly right in 
> the above description, like menu locations, but it should get you 
> close. Now it's on to getting the actual HD playback. So far MythTV 
> and HDHR are not talking nicely to each other.
>
> Did I miss anything others that use the Revo?
>
> -Tim
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Just curious...  Are you able to play music from mythmusic with this 
configuration?  I have a 1600 also and am extremely happy with it, but I 
could not get music to play over hdmi unless I set a custom .asoundrc 
that was suggested by Jedi.

> --------------------- .asoundrc ----------------------------------
>
> ### .asoundrc for Acer Revo
>
> pcm.dmixer {
>    type dmix
>    ipc_key 1024
>    ipc_key_add_uid false
>    ipc_perm 0660
>    slave {
>       pcm "hw:0,3"
>       rate 48000
>       channels 2
>       format S32_LE
>       period_time 0
>       period_size 1024
>       buffer_time 0
>       buffer_size 4096
>    }
> }
>
> pcm.!default {
>    type plug
>    slave.pcm "dmixer"
> }
>   
Without the above I got Error: Rate doesn't match (requested 44100Hz, 
got 48000Hz) in mythfrontend.log

John


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