On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:26 -0500, Andy Walls wrote: > Warren Sturm wrote: > > > I am also running fedora 8 x86_64. The cx18 driver compiles and loads > > except I have not compiled it for the last release of the kernel yet. > > The firmware was obtained via the link on the cx18 page. I have not > > been able to get it to work reliably with mythtv. There is a message > > about a select timeout that happens twice about every 40 seconds. > > I plan on working the MythTV problem for myself as time permits this > weekend. Something in the MPEGRecorder class in mpegrecorder.cpp > probably needs to be fixed. I doubt lengthening the select timeout will > work - the one that's there is already pretty long. > > My plan is to turn on debug flags for ivtv and cx18 modules and do a > differential comparison, to figure out where MythTV's MPEGRecorder class > may be failing to set up the cx18 properly. > > If I can find and fix the problem, I'll post a MythTV patch here. > >
It almost looks like there should be a similar set of modules for the cx18 as there is for ivtv. I think the reason the ivtv driver is involved is because in setup we are attempting to piggyback off the PVR150,250,350 cardtype in mythtv-setup > > I did try a dd from the /dev/video0 device to a file for a few minutes > > and then mplayer that file and there were no timeouts. mplayer > > directly > > against /dev/video0 would eventually display rubbish and the sound is > > way out of synch. > > > Hmm. My computer sometimes, but rarely, does that with mplayer and ivtv > after a brief period of high cpu load during playback. I have never > encountered it with ivtv and MythTV - go figure. I have a dual-core > processor so maybe that makes a difference with mplayer - I don't know. > > -Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
