Paul,<br><br>You talk about running trunk, is it stable enough to use for real? I am only interested in using it as a backend since I'm planing to use XBMC as a combined frontend/general media player on a Zotac.<br><br>
I recently purchased a HDHomeRun which now works OK with fixes-21 branch due to some recent changes that were back-ported from trunk so I can see that there is more effort going into truck (understandable), maybe it is worth making the switch.<br>
<br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Paul Kendall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@kcbbs.gen.nz">paul@kcbbs.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Friday 21 August 2009 08:28:39 pm Steve V wrote:<br>
> Has anyone got a Zotac up and running and doing everything they want?<br>
><br>
</div>Yup, I have 2 of them, and built a 3rd for a friend!<br>
My 2 at home are remote network boot frontends to a backend machine with<br>
stacks of disk space.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I have a single core board with a Mythbuntu 9.04 install<br>
> 2gigs of RAM<br>
> JYA repository for Myth<br>
> Nvidia 185.18.31<br>
> A Philips media centre remote receiver (and a Logitech remote)<br>
<br>
</div>I use the 190.18 nvidia and trunk of mythtv. Same remote? SRM5100 Awesome!<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> After a few weeks of tinkering (a little bit each day) I am about 80% happy<br>
> with the way it works.<br>
><br>
> Issues I have are:<br>
><br>
> Sometimes on boot up it seems to start 2 instances of Mythfrontend - not<br>
> absolutely sure that this is what is happening as I haven't sshed in to<br>
> check what processes are running, but when it happens nothing plays well<br>
> and when I use escape to exit I end up exiting Mythfrontend and find a<br>
> second version sitting behind, which I then have to exit before I can<br>
> restart Mythfrontend and watch stuff.<br>
<br>
</div>On the 3rd machine I see this if I logout with mythfrontend running then log<br>
back in. I think the xfce session is saving the running one and the auto start<br>
starts another!<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> Sometimes on boot networking does not start, I have to exit mythfrontend<br>
> (which hasn't started properly - I get the can't find uPNP server error)<br>
> and run /etc/init.d/networking restart to get networking going.<br>
</div>Nope, no problems here. The 3rd is using wireless too!<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Audio seems to be out of sync on most recordings, by up to 50ms. It's not<br>
> out of sync on my other frontend so it must be a playback issue. Sometimes<br>
> when I adjust the audio sync audio stops altogether.<br>
><br>
</div>I havn't really notice it. But on C4 I get stop/start and jerky sound, but<br>
generally on in Malcolm in the Middle!<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> When I use timestretch say to 1.2x the video speeds up fine but the audio<br>
> breaks up badly. "top" shows no real increase in CPU use going from 1x to<br>
> 1.2x but it acts like the processor can't keep up with the required<br>
> stretch. I've tried all the options for deinterlacer in case it was somehow<br>
> related to the NVIDIA driver.<br>
><br>
</div>Sorry, I don't use time-stretch.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Just wondering if anyone is seeing the same issues or if anyone has a<br>
> better performing system, I'd love to know your settings.<br>
><br>
</div>I also have a fe/be box in the lounge with DVB-S only, this is the "keep the<br>
wife happy" box. This is an old AMD Sempron system.<br>
<br>
I love these boards! Can't wait for 0.22 release so I can replace the main<br>
system at home with another ZOTAC as well :-)<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Paul<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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