[mythtvnz] freeview|HD working!

[Michael Dilger]

Hayden Lovett wrote:
> Hey all,
> Excited to give the latest patches a go, but a little lost how to 
> apply them. 
> Also, do they work with 64bit editions?
>
> Good on you for putting in the hard yards Paul,
> Hayden
What worked for me:
1) download the fully patched source from Paul Kendall's site.
    mythtv-0.21.0+fixes17900+ffmpeg14408+latm.tar.bz2
2) make the 4 small changes discovered by Craig Whitmore noted in my 
last email
3) build and install.

Although this gets me up and running, I still have these problems
a) HD video stutters often.  I think my system may be too slow to do 
this properly.
b) HD video often crashes the front end (segv in h264 code).
c) HD video recordings pretty much always crash the front end, so far.

In the meantime, on a day-to-day basis, I use mplayer-svn with lirc for 
remote control channel flipping.  With my slower system, I usually have 
to =pause= immediately after tuning in a channel, and quickly =unpause= 
to get the buffering levels proper so it stops stuttering and doesn't 
crash... mplayer buffering could use some work (?).  But once it syncs 
up and buffers properly I can watch that channel for about half an hour 
before it starts stuttering and I have to again =pause= and quickly 
=unpause= again to get it back working smooth.

TV3 gives me the most problems.

My system, where DVB-T HD barely works:
  Athlon64 3200+, gentoo linux 2.6.25-r5 preempt, system built with
  CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native -fomit-frame-pointer"

-Mike