Archive for July, 2009
Live TV Working
by james on Jul.20, 2009, under Uncategorized
Searching continued for watching Live TV with Hauppauge HVR950Q and mythtv… Found mythtv mail-list post, from yesterday, about xc5000 and not being able to watch Live TV. My initial suspicions were correct. Firmware was taking way too long to load, supposedly about 7 seconds! That causes time-out and Live TV fails. I guess the timeout for recording is high enough that recordings work. When I set up the card initially I ticked the box to “Open DVB card on demand”. This means that when the backend isn’t using it the card is in “power off”, the tuner is not on, amber light is off, device is free for any program to grab it. Sounds great then if I want I can use mplayer to watch streams and the card will be off most of the time. So the solution is to untick the box. This loads the firmware when mythbackend starts and the card is left “power on” so that the firmware is only loaded once and not every time the backend wants to use the card. Good fix for now, but I might try tweaking the timeout settings so that I can retick the box. I’ll add an update for what I find out. Other good news, I successfully recorded 2 streams on the one device the other day. It seems like comcast has a large amount (over 10) of streams at 83.X so I should be able to record a lot of streams at once. Awesome!
On a separate note I was doing some updates and my xorg got screwy. At first it wasn’t working at all, after reinstalling ati-drivers and rebuilding xorg, banging my head on the wall, it worked. QT is messed up though, when I start mythfrontend fullscreen the screen is totally corrupted video playback is corrupted. Tried rebuilding mythtv to no avail. If I “mythfrontend –geometry 1438×898” it is almost fullscreen and not corrupted at all. Again, I’ll update when I find something out.
