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On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 22:33, Joe V wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#407373"><I>My setup is an Athlon XP 2400+, 512MB of DDR RAM, and
a Western Digital 100GB hard drive. Clearly, this
should be good enough for "Live TV".</I></FONT></PRE>
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Absolutely. I'm fairly confident I could throw another capture card in my box, and be able to record two signals while watching something else without any difficulty. <BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#407373"><I>Given that setup, I'm not too keen on having any
noticable disruptions in the picture. By noticable, I
mean, the picture pauses for 2-5 seconds, with no
sound.</I></FONT></PRE>
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Wow. I have trouble imagining a cable signal so bad that it would cause those sorts of problems on your hardware. Is there any chance your recordings directory isn't on a DMA-enabled drive? Or do you happen to have automatic commercial skipping turned on? <BR>
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Maybe you should stick a still image of a typical "marginal" picture up somewhere. I've got a few channels that often look like every show was filmed in a mild blizzard, and none of them are so bad as to cause those sorts of problems.<BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#407373"><I>using the v4l2 drivers and bttv 0.9.x as well as the
default bttv in Red Hat 9, and the latest bttv 0.7.x.</I></FONT></PRE>
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I'm running Redhat 9's default driver, I believe, which appears to be 0.7.96.<BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#407373"><I>I guess I'll have to hope that the management will fix
the signal, and in the meantime, play around with it
further. Although my goal is to have everything in
one box, I wonder if using a dedicated backend would
help out.</I></FONT></PRE>
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Any chance that there's any local equipment that is interfering? When I first setup myth, I noticed the picture was significantly worse than with my TV or VCR tuners. After some experimentation I noticed that the splitter I was using degraded the signal a bit (I'm assuming it was too close to the computer and was picking up a lot of the EM noise), the signal amplifier was adding even more noise (maybe for the same reasons), and the hub I'd added was the worst contributor of all. <BR>
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Rick<BR>
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