On January 28, 2006 12:52 pm, Steve Malenfant wrote: > For the Air2PC card, it seems like it's normal... Even if it shows > that it can't get alock for a few minutes, it is getting it anyway. > Your backend will start normally and start recording just fine after a > few minutes. I don't really like that, but that's the way it is. > > I got 3 cards, and there might be one of them that gives a good status > when I boot up my machine. I don't know if it has to do with 2 cards > being in the system instead of just one. > > Steve
Any word on whether these puppies support QAM256, or if they ever will? Mark > > On 1/28/06, William Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently purchased first generation Air2PC cards off eBay. I knew > > there might be issues, but it seemed like a low-cost way to experiment > > with digital / HD TV and that has proven to be true. In fact, the first > > card worked extremely well, no issues whatsoever, so I bought a second > > one. The second card, however, takes much longer to initialize and lock > > up on its startup channel - usually several minutes as compared to less > > than 30 seconds for the first card I bought. Once initialized, both > > cards work fine. However, mythbackend gives up after 30 seconds so > > getting them both initialized is a problem. > > > > I found I could fix that problem by editing 'dvbchannel.h' in libmythtv, > > the line that reads: > > > > "bool TuneTransport(dvb_channel_t& channel, bool all=false, int > > timeout=300000);" > > > > Adding an extra zero to the 'timeout' parameter allows the backend to > > wait long enough for my slow card to achieve a lock. However, I'm > > curious if there is an easier way. For example, is there some way to > > condition the card(s) prior to starting the backend that would allow > > them to successfully lock up within the default 30 seconds? > > > > Also, change of subject, is there some trick to getting XvMC to actually > > work? When I first tried to use it on two machines, both with 0.18.1, > > FX5200's and the NVIDIA driver, only the Hardware MPEG checkbox was > > present on the Playback settings page. On both machines, when that > > checkbox was checked, playback and live TV would both fail with a > > message saying that the frontend was unable to initialize the display. > > After fooling around with the stuff mentioned above, including a > > recompile of 0.18.1, a checkbox to enable OpenGL vsync suddently > > appeared on the same settings page as the XvMC checkbox and now XvMC > > works on that machine. But I don't know why it started working and I > > haven't been able to duplicate the feat on my other Myth box. > > > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
