This is a follow-up to the discussion about the X driver; I have run up
against this myself while building a new mythtv box
(New PVR-350, Slackware 12, kernel 2.6.22.1, ivtv-1.01 compiled from
source with all the appropriate kernel options per the README).  I
downloaded the trunk version of the X driver yesterday and tried it with
"ivtv-fb osd_compat=1."  Cannot use the ivtvdev because of
"ivtvHWProvbe failed to do IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE for device /dev/fb0" 
Unfortunately, fbdev is too slow on a Celeron D 2.8.   The MythTV
documentation led me to believe that this wouldn't be a problem with the
marvelous PVR-350 because of hardware decoding to TV-Out.

So I have two points of confusion:

1) When the next version of everything comes out, will this be
significantly better than fbdev speed-wise?

2) Will an upcoming version make the "Use the PVR-350's TV out / MPEG
decoder" truly usable?

3) Is there a combination of kernel/mythtv/ivtv that I could revert to
to take advantage of TV-Out today?

Wow, that's three.  I really am confused.

Thanks to the ivtv developers for their work.  This stuff is
mind-boggling and makes me appreciate what went into creating the TiVo!

--Rob Clark



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