[Tux-theater] HD MythTV box almost working.

[David A. Cafaro]

Ok, I have almost got my MythTV box up and running.  I've got it hooked
up via Component Cables displaying 1080i on my Toshiba HDTV, and coaxial
digital sound going to my Yamaha Surround receiver.  Normal Analog
stations come across fine over the dual pcHDTV 3000 cards. HD Channels
are another story.  But I am having two issues.

1.  When using the "Watch TV" option in Myth the HD Channels Sound and
Picture both stutter and skip with pixelation.  It doesn't seem to
really matter if it's a 480p signal or a 1080i signal, I get about the
same amount of stutter.  I tried pausing the shows for a bit to see if
it worked better from the disk buffer, but still the same issues.  I
haven't tried using mplayer standalone yet to see if that works better
on a recorded show, that's my next test.  I also tried dropping the
Video Card output to 480p vs 1080i (changing the xorg.conf) and that
didn't fix the problem, maybe a little less stuttering, but it still
stuttered a lot.

2.  Though I have a perfectly good program guide for the analog
channels, the digital channels don't seem to be working.  I setup both
the Analog and Digital Cox Cable setup in zap2it, but it doesn't seem to
be loaded the digital while the analog is (and I have separate configs
inside MythTv for each).  Maybe I'm just missing something.  Anyone else
have this working?

Here is the hardware setup of the system:

nMedia Systems HTPC 200BA Case
MSI K8NGM2-FID Motherboard (Geforce 6150)
AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800 CPU (Retail w/FAN)
2GB (4x512MB) Patriot DDR400 CAS2 Memory
16x BenQ DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Drive
Two Seagate Barracuda 400GB SATA2 Drives (Raid 1)
Two pcHDTV HD-3000 HDTV Tuner Cards
SeaSonic 380 Watt Silent Power Supply


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David Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>
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