On Friday 16 December 2005 22:30, Azmat wrote: > I've been using this script in a cron job for the last week, but I'm > still seeing glitching. Its mostly occurring at the start of a show > and then clears up in the middle. Is it possible that I might need to > use a faster processor or bump up my RAM? Right now I'm running an > Athlon XP 2400+ with 1G of RAM. Thanks in advance for the help. > > Azmat > > On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > there was a thread a while back regarding this. You can search on > > Gossamer for more info. basically you want to run this bash script. It > > will set the p2p or broadcast connection to 1 depending on what your > > machine will use. From what I've found bcast is prefered when available, > > which is why it comes second (since its one or the other) p2p is > > sometimes only available and when this is the case its fine. data_rate > > doesn't need to be 3, but it increases speed if your using firewire for > > capture and not just channel changing. I have it run before mythbackend > > starts when I run it via init.d and I've found it resets sometimes so I > > run it hourly as a cron job. > > > > oh, and the -n # is which node it is. In case you have more than one > > firewire connection have it run for each connection as well. > > > > #!/bin/bash > > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].channel=63 > > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].n_p2p_connections=1 > > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1 > > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].data_rate=3 > > > > -- > > Steve > > > > On Friday 09 December 2005 14:52, Azmat wrote: > > > Here's my plugreport output: > > > Host Adapter 0 > > > ============== > > > > > > Node 0 GUID 0x0000d10080357942 > > > ------------------------------ > > > libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR > > > libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR > > > > > > Node 1 GUID 0x4279358080357942 > > > ------------------------------ > > > libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR > > > libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR > > > > > > Node 2 GUID 0x000f9ffffe103008 > > > ------------------------------ > > > oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63 > > > oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0 > > > channel=63, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=376 > > > iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2 > > > > > > On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Friday 09 December 2005 12:44, Azmat wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > My mythtv system is running on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2 GHz) with > > > > > 1G RAM, a PVR-350 and firewire capture from my Motorola DCT-6200 > > > > > cable box. Whenever I do firewire capture from the box through > > > > > Myth, the recording exhibits a audio/video glitching. The picture > > > > > will momentarily become pixelated and there will be a brief skip. > > > > > I can tell the glitch is in the recording because when I rewind and > > > > > playback it is reproducible. There is no pattern or regularity to > > > > > the glitching. Sometimes it will be at the start of the show and > > > > > will disappear in the middle, only to reappear later. It doesn't > > > > > prevent me from recording shows, but is just become a huge > > > > > annoyance that I'd like to take care of. Does anyone have any idea > > > > > what might be wrong? Do you think a faster processor would help? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > > > > > Azmat > > > > > > > > run plugreport and paste the output. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Steve > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > Azmat > > -- > > > Azmat
What speed setting do you have set for the firewire capture device? try increasing it as Myth will change these plug values when you use firewire as a capture device. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users