I have recently built myself a neat new PIII-800 based mythTV box.
Configuration summary as follows:
TV card is a PV-BT878P which is a simple Phillips compatible tuner with
a connexant BT878. I am using the bttv drivers from bytesex.org for this
card.
I also have a Miro DC10+ which is a hardware MJPEG card for which I am
using the unified Zoran driver and mjpeg-tools.
I have a Creative Live Platinum 5.1 card for sound which I am running
under ALSA.
lirc is happily up and running.
I have a few minor problems which I am hoping someone may be able to
help me with.
1. Infra-red Remote problem...
After I watch a video (from my not very substantial divx collection), I
lose the ability to control my MythTV box from the infra-red controller.
I have a good idea why this is happening. MPlayer is launched in a new
window, and once this window closes focus is not correctly returned to
the mythtv window. I can work around it by pressing alt-tab twice on the
keyboard, but if I do not do this, irxevent will keep on trying to send
IR keyboard events to the wrong window. This is only a minor irritation,
but it would be nice to know how to get around this one.
2. TV Tuner problem.
As I said, tuner and TV card work a treat, but recording TV is not so
great. Processor capacity is not up to much and the AV synch lag is a
thing to behold. I have therefore hacked my BT878 card and connected the
output of my tuner to the input of the Zoran MJPEG card. I can now watch
two xawtv sessions with the same TV picture... Woo Hoo.
What I am pretty sure I really want to do though, is this:
a) send TV tuning IOCTLS to /dev/video0
b) watch and record /dev/video1 and associated audio line input.
I thought there may be a way to do this using some of the existing
MYthTV functionality, but I am a bit of a newbie at this game and
probably need a nudge in the right direction.
Unfortunately, I appear unable to tune the bttv card and watch the Zoran
card at the same time.
Any nudging in the right direction will be gratefully received.
regards
Mark Edwards.
Configuration summary as follows:
TV card is a PV-BT878P which is a simple Phillips compatible tuner with
a connexant BT878. I am using the bttv drivers from bytesex.org for this
card.
I also have a Miro DC10+ which is a hardware MJPEG card for which I am
using the unified Zoran driver and mjpeg-tools.
I have a Creative Live Platinum 5.1 card for sound which I am running
under ALSA.
lirc is happily up and running.
I have a few minor problems which I am hoping someone may be able to
help me with.
1. Infra-red Remote problem...
After I watch a video (from my not very substantial divx collection), I
lose the ability to control my MythTV box from the infra-red controller.
I have a good idea why this is happening. MPlayer is launched in a new
window, and once this window closes focus is not correctly returned to
the mythtv window. I can work around it by pressing alt-tab twice on the
keyboard, but if I do not do this, irxevent will keep on trying to send
IR keyboard events to the wrong window. This is only a minor irritation,
but it would be nice to know how to get around this one.
2. TV Tuner problem.
As I said, tuner and TV card work a treat, but recording TV is not so
great. Processor capacity is not up to much and the AV synch lag is a
thing to behold. I have therefore hacked my BT878 card and connected the
output of my tuner to the input of the Zoran MJPEG card. I can now watch
two xawtv sessions with the same TV picture... Woo Hoo.
What I am pretty sure I really want to do though, is this:
a) send TV tuning IOCTLS to /dev/video0
b) watch and record /dev/video1 and associated audio line input.
I thought there may be a way to do this using some of the existing
MYthTV functionality, but I am a bit of a newbie at this game and
probably need a nudge in the right direction.
Unfortunately, I appear unable to tune the bttv card and watch the Zoran
card at the same time.
Any nudging in the right direction will be gratefully received.
regards
Mark Edwards.