I had an AMD system with a via KM400 and the reliability of the system, especialy in playback, was very low. I changed to a nforce2 motherboard and all problems went away.
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:39:49 -0800 (PST), Jason Knisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yah. I thought that that might be the case.... It's > worked perfectly in the two dual Xeon machines that I > have. The production backend is a dual Xeon 2.2 and > the only linux Xeon I have.. I might just have to yank > it from the rack and use it on the desk for a while > until after we get vbi slicing and scaling completely > going. > > Eh well. :P > > Jason > > > --- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > At the risk of being completely flamed here, in my > > experience the PVR 500 > > wont work with most VIA chipsets. > > I have tried it in a ASROCK K7 AMD2400 board and a > > VIA EPIA and both did > > exactly the same as yours. > > > > It had nothing to do with the power supply as has > > been highlighted in a > > different post. Read the recommended hardware > > requirements and it will tell > > you: > > Processor requirements: PentiumR IV processor 1.2GHz > > or faster for TV pause > > with full screen playback > > > > I changed to a P4 3Ghz Intel and all is good. Sorry > > to be the bearer of bad > > news. > > > > Cheers > > Grant > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Jason Knisley > > Sent: Sunday, 13 March 2005 9:00 p.m. > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [ivtv-devel] PVR500 & VIA > > > > Hey all, > > > > Well, I've hit a new little snag. I've been > > shuffling around machines since > > I got the PATA card, and I've set up this Athlon XP > > 1700 as my test machine > > for myth and the PVR500... > > > > However, when I tried 0.3.2i, I got about two > > seconds worth of data before > > the machine reset. > > > > And I tried f, and I got about 20 seconds worth of > > digitally noisy data > > before the machine reset. > > > > then I tried megapatched e, and I got variable > > lengths of noisy data before > > the machine reset. > > > > I recall seeing somewhere that there was an issue > > with motherboards with VIA > > chipsets... Is this actually true? I also tried > > turning off preemption, so I > > have an 8kstacks uniprocessor kernel without > > preemption and it just simply > > resets while decoding. > > > > Anyone got any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
