<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 23, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Mark wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I have set up several Mythboxes before no problem. ( 32 bit and PVR 250's )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">This time, I have an athlon 64 ( FC5 X64 version ) and a PVR 500.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I am getting no where with this setup so far ( any volunteers for assistance? )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">If I rmmod ivtv and modprobe ivtv then I can capture raw off /dev/video0 and /dev/video1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">But then it seems to hang after a bit and I have to rmmod it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Should I just be going with the 32 bit OS?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Some assistance to get past this would be appreciated. I have never run into this many issues in the past.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV>I once was running an Athlon64 with Gentoo in 64-bit mode. MythTV built and ran fine using the standard Gentoo Ebuild, so I don't think there is anything inherently not 64-bit clean in Myth, although some ancillary stuff might have problems.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This was back with version 0.18.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm now running that hardware with a MythDora installation, which is a 32-bit FC system, and as far as I can tell there is no advantage to running Myth in 64-bit mode.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Certainly more folks are running 32-bit Myth systems, even those with 64-bit CPUs, and you;re usually better off running something more common.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are the usual problems with 64-bit Linux of course, the lack of a 64-bit flash plugin/player being one, if you consider that a problem :-) Also some "proprietary binary blob" type drivers are either not available or lag behind their 32-bit cousins. You also can't use the Windows codecs easily, as you can with 32-bit Linux.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But it ought to work.</DIV></BODY></HTML>