Just my 2cents here... I went through the same thing until I built a new 64bit system and got the PVR-150. Your 150 does everything on the hardware so there's no software work going on and should lighten the load on your system considerably compared to the BT878 card which requires software to do the work.
Have you tried Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty yet? I actually gained considerable performance improvements with this over Edgy. The IVTV software is already in the repo's and complete with necessary scripts for Ubuntu 7.04. I also use MythTV scaled to a window size of 720x480 (NTSC) and can watch Live TV at about 10% system load and record full sized at about 3% load. This is monumental from FC6 x86_64 which averaged 68% viewing and 80% recording. I run an AMD64 1.8Ghz with 1Gb RAM system. There's no need to split your recorings as the 150 will produce a valid MPEG file for viewing in any player. - Is your system or player setup to use the ALSA sound? - Can other media files play properly? - Do you have all the necessary codecs/libraries to play? IE LAME, FFMPEG etc. Tony On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 21:47 +0200, Vitalino wrote: > Hi gentlemen, > > In my effort to gain quality from my analog video camera, I bought a > PVR-150 for doing what Avermedia Cap98 BT878 did before without success. > > My system is a Ubuntu Brezzy, 2.6.12 kernel, and 0.4.1 ivtv over K7 700 > MHz and 500MB memory; too slow to perform a good quality video with > software encoding. A/V desyncronization, ghosts and other problems come > with that encoding, this is the cause I have a PVR-150 now. > > PVR-150 seems to be setting up right, and luckyly, the composite video > in too, but audio doesn't sound from MPEG file, in spite of file info > tells audio is in: > > $ cat /dev/video0 > pvr150_ivtv0.4_test.mpeg > > The video mpeg created by the card's hardware looked like the video I > produced with bt878 software capturing; I am thinking that it's possible > to get more quality working with the raw data the card offer. I tried: > > $ cat /dev/video24 > pvr150_ivtv0.4_test.wav > $ cat /dev/video32 > pvr150_ivtv0.4_test.yuv > > but no application can play this files. > > And now the questions: > > 1.- Why audio doesn't sound from the .mpeg file? > > 2.- How can I manage the files .wav and .yuv? > > 3.- Any ideas for better quality? > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > ______________________________________________ > LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. > Llamadas a fijos y mviles desde 1 cntimo por minuto. > http://es.voice.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
