Hey there, I have a small, hopefully easy for those with knowledge on topic, ques. My mahcine has a older Via based mainboard. Somewhere I read these chipsets have problems when the PCI bus gets pretty full. This is greatly visible under windows, as I can't use my card properly on it without the system rebooting within 10 minutes (in several setups/programs / driver combinations / PCI slots. in some slots I can't use it at all under windows (instant reboot upon accessing the card)). This is when only 1 of the 2 tuners on my PVR-500 is active. Under linux I can run both tuners without problems / weird log entries. The image isn't crisp though and I always figured it is because my tuner isn't (fully) supported yet (btw, I saw some posts on the tuner Philips FQ1216AME MK4, I'm willing to help debug / provide access).
But anyways for the question. Can my image quality be affected by this PCI bus issue? I don't know how linux handles it / why it's stable when windows is not, but if it would drop frames or whatever, it would ofcourse affect the image quality. Reason I'm asking is that I need to know if I'll have to buy a new mainboard and all my previous testing would have been (reasonably) useless. They aren't that expensive, but I wouldn't want to buy one if it isn't necessary ofcourse. Kind regards -- Freaky ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
