[Cialug] alsa snd-atiixp with bt878

[David Champion]

What speed is your CPU? With a bt878 card, my CPU - Celeron 800 oc'ed to 
993mhz - was not fast enough to watch "real time" TV in MythTV. That's 
why I bought the PVR-250 - because it has a built-in mpeg encoder that 
takes that part off the CPU's load. In theory. If you can get it working. :)

-dc

Tom Pohl wrote:

> Indeed it is :)
> 
>  Once I get the audio worked out, I need to figure out why the video 
> seems to run just a tad slower than realtime.  It's probably the video 
> card.  I think I read somewhere that there is an ATI driver that speeds 
> up performance.
> 
> -Tom
> 
> On Nov 2, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 
>> Did somebody say MythTV?  ;-)  Is that what you are working on Tom?
>>
>> -Nate
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Champion [mailto:dave@visionary.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:13 AM
>> To: cialug@cialug.org
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] alsa snd-atiixp with bt878
>>
>>
>>
>> Ah, yes. I was not using ALSA either. At that time, MythTV's
>> documentation was saying not to use ALSA because of problems like
>> this... I was using the OSS drivers.
>>
>> It seems like ALSA is getting better, but it's still a bit flakey, IMHO.
>>
>> -dc