MythTV port
Torfinn Ingolfsen
torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no
Wed Dec 27 09:37:06 PST 2006
Hello,
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:04:17 -0500
Scott Spare <scuppers at gmail.com> wrote:
> usleepless, torfinn, et al:
> I have hardware and can test a MythTV port as needed.
Great! We need more testers.
Remember, I'm just a tester too, so any information I might have is
based on what I have been able to pick up from developers and other
users.
> One machine is a 600mhz PIII with 384MB ram and ATI TV Wonder.
> The other is a 2GHz PIV with 512 and Hauppauge PVR-150
Machines: both look fine to me.
TV Cards:
The PVR-150 should be fine, use the pvrxxx port as a driver.
I don't know about the ATI TV Wonder. I think (somebody correct me if
I'm wrong here) MythTV requires a v4l or v4l2 api to the driver (at
least an api with most of the functions).
> Let me know what I can do to help.
Are you familiar with MythTV?
If not, are you prepared to spend some time fiddling with it?
It might take you a few hours, or even a few evenings to get a working
setup. But in the end it is worth it.
AFAIK, the situation is like this: the MythTV port is created, but
there are not many success reports yet. Perhaps because not a lot of
people have tried it yet, or perhaps because the port has problems.
We know that usleep is using his own modified version of MythTV - that
doesn't count as a positive report for the MythTV port, unless usleep
also have tested the port.
I would guess that the port works for Greg (the author of the port),
but I don't really know. Comments to clear up this confusion is welcome.
Anyway, I suggest that you install the port and try to see what you get
from it.
If both of your machines are "free" (or you have a spare hard drive),
perhaps you could installe KnoppMyth
(http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html) on the PIII machine, that way
you would have a working "reference" machine to check out Myth-related
questions.
Note: I see that the web page mentions KnoppMyth R5D1 (uss MythTV
0.19-fixes), but R5E50 have just been announced on the mythtv-users
mailinglist: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/242706
As this is based on MythTV 0.20-fixes, it is closer to the MythTV port
we have right now. FWIW, I'm still running KnoppMyth R5D1 on my main
MythTV backend. It is in production, so I will upgrade it later, when
I'm mentally ready. :-)
HTH
--
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway
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