From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 27 18:15:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC0916A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:15:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from feith1.FEITH.COM (feith1.FEITH.COM [192.251.93.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DEA43D1D for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:15:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@feith.com) Received: from jwlab.FEITH.COM (jwlab.FEITH.COM [192.251.93.16]) by feith1.FEITH.COM (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2S2FnkQ009167; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:15:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from john@localhost) by jwlab.FEITH.COM (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i2S2Fnk06615; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:15:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:15:49 -0500 (EST) From: John Wehle Message-Id: <200403280215.i2S2Fnk06615@jwlab.FEITH.COM> To: u431839553@navab.net Content-Type: text X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-Archived: cashew.FEITH.COM cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 for FreeBSD 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 02:15:51 -0000 > I got the -t option working with setchannel using channel 43. Good. > I get this while watching live tv: > kernel: cxm0: encoder dma not enough buffer space > last message repeated 34 times This indicates that an application failed to read the mpeg data stream from the cxm device in a timely fashion causing a buffer overflow (i.e. MPlayer couldn't keep up). There are several possible solutions depending on the actual weakest link: 1) Better video card. Personally I like the ATI radeon cards. 2) Better Xserver (i.e. XFree86 4.4) which supports using the video card hardware for things like colorspace conversion and MPEG motion compensation. This is of course assuming your video card has hardware for those sorts of things. 3) Faster processor. 4) More memory (only if your machine is actually swapping). 5) Enable MPlayer's frame drop option (more of a workaround than a solution). > Yes, it's composite input. I got a SCART output from the satellite box > to composite/audio line in on the Hauppage card. I get "device not > configured" using both -c and -s. It sounds like something is wrong with either the cabling or the composite video output from the satellite box. What happens if you unplug the composite video cable from the Hauppauge card and plug it into the composite input on a TV set? Do you get a good picture? What exactly does your cabling look like? -- John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Feith Systems | Voice: 1-215-646-8000 | Email: john@feith.com | | John Wehle | Fax: 1-215-540-5495 | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------