[mythtvnz] Now I'm using two sources...

[Steven Ellis]

On Tue, July 3, 2007 10:06 am, Robin Gilks wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, July 2, 2007 3:07 pm, Wade Maxfield wrote:
>>>>For the last 2 years I've been using the svideo input to a PVR150 car=
d
>>>>from a Sky STB. I now have a SkyStar card so I have 2 sources. This h=
as
>>>>changed the user interface in the following areas:
>>>>
>>>>* I've set the priority of the Sat card higher than the PVR150 so tha=
t
>>>> it
>>>>is the preferred source for recordings - it also seems to make it the
>>>>preferred LiveTV source which I thought would take the lowest priorit=
y
>>>>source :-(
>>>
>>> Try toggling the Avoid Conflicts settings in  Settings > TV
>>> Settings > General (page 1)
>>>
>>>
>>>>* when browsing in LiveTV mode I can only browse the current source -
>>>>seems to be a bit of a limitation or is it just me! A PITA if the Sat
>>>> card
>>>>(with all 3 channels available on it) is the default.
>>>
>>> Hit "Y" to switch cards.
>>
>> This is still confusing. Shame there isn't a sensible way to up/down
>> browse across all inputs.
>>
>>>>* Playback seems a bit jerky now - although this may be coincidental
>>>> with
>>>>the latest ffmpeg resync introducing various problems on Via C2 CPUs.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is that for all recordings, or only ones from the SkyStar2?  I find
>>> that DVB-S recordings suffer from a little jerkiness, most often when
>>> the OSD appears or fades out.  This is on an Athlon64 3200+ or
>>> X24600+, so I'm not normally starved for CPU, it just seems that's
>>> the way it is.
>>
>> This is a bug in 0.20-fixes that isn't present in 0.20-svn. I've
>> submitted
>> the patches required for a backport, but no one has picked them up.
>>
>
> I'm still playing with the 'Avoid Conflicts' settings to get it the rig=
ht
> way round for my occasional LiveTV browsing habits!
>
> This jerking problem only appears in LiveTV and it seems that the lates=
t
> SVN has changed the amount of buffering and its not enough for my syste=
m.
> Either pausing or skipping back a few seconds to leave a 'buffer space'
> sorts it all out. Strangely, its worse on the PVR150 to the DVB-S card =
-
> maybe because the DVB card produces a 'cleaner' signal to start with.

What SVN tag are you built off and are you using trunk or fixes?

I've found if I have Live TV, tuner to a channel, and then change channel
quickly a couple of times it really provokes the problem.


Check out this ticket for the detail on what needed backporting from trun=
k

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3591

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