[mythtvnz] Zotac ion settings and issues

[Mark de Reeper]

Paul,

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.

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.

Mark

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Paul Kendall <paul at kcbbs.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Friday 21 August 2009 08:28:39 pm Steve V wrote:
> > Has anyone got a Zotac up and running and doing everything they want?
> >
> Yup, I have 2 of them, and built a 3rd for a friend!
> My 2 at home are remote network boot frontends to a backend machine with
> stacks of disk space.
>
> > I have a single core board with a Mythbuntu 9.04 install
> > 2gigs of RAM
> > JYA repository for Myth
> > Nvidia 185.18.31
> > A Philips media centre remote receiver (and a Logitech remote)
>
> I use the 190.18 nvidia and trunk of mythtv. Same remote? SRM5100 Awesome!
>
> >
> > After a few weeks of tinkering (a little bit each day) I am about 80%
> happy
> > with the way it works.
> >
> > Issues I have are:
> >
> > Sometimes on boot up it seems to start 2 instances of Mythfrontend - not
> > absolutely sure that this is what is happening as I haven't sshed in to
> > check what processes are running, but when it happens nothing plays well
> > and when I use escape to exit I end up exiting Mythfrontend and find a
> > second version sitting behind, which I then have to exit before I can
> > restart Mythfrontend and watch stuff.
>
> On the 3rd machine I see this if I logout with mythfrontend running then
> log
> back in. I think the xfce session is saving the running one and the auto
> start
> starts another!
> >
> > Sometimes on boot networking does not start, I have to exit mythfrontend
> > (which hasn't started properly - I get the can't find uPNP server error)
> > and run /etc/init.d/networking restart to get networking going.
> Nope, no problems here. The 3rd is using wireless too!
>
> >
> > Audio seems to be out of sync on most recordings, by up to 50ms. It's not
> > out of sync on my other frontend so it must be a playback issue.
> Sometimes
> > when I adjust the audio sync audio stops altogether.
> >
> I havn't really notice it. But on C4 I get stop/start and jerky sound, but
> generally on in Malcolm in the Middle!
>
> > When I use timestretch say to 1.2x the video speeds up fine but the audio
> > breaks up badly. "top" shows no real increase in CPU use going from 1x to
> > 1.2x but it acts like the processor can't keep up with the required
> > stretch. I've tried all the options for deinterlacer in case it was
> somehow
> > related to the NVIDIA driver.
> >
> Sorry, I don't use time-stretch.
>
> > Just wondering if anyone is seeing the same issues or if anyone has a
> > better performing system, I'd love to know your settings.
> >
> I also have a fe/be box in the lounge with DVB-S only, this is the "keep
> the
> wife happy" box. This is an old AMD Sempron system.
>
> I love these boards! Can't wait for 0.22 release so I can replace the main
> system at home with another ZOTAC as well :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
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