Hi,

First off, let me detail my system

Compaq Deskpro P_3 800Mhz 256 mb RAM
Hauppauge PVR350
TV-out connected to tv
Knoppmyth R5A22

mythtv@mythtv:/usr/src$ ivtvctl -V
ioctl: IVTV_IOC_G_DRIVER_INFO
driver info:
version = 0x00000303 (0.3.3)
comment = u
mythtv@mythtv:/usr/src$ uname -r
2.6.11.9-chw-2


At first, I had just the PVR 350. After a lot of searching knoppmythwiki and this fine forum, I managed to get it to work with the ivtv driver (incl tv-out), recompiled lirc for remote etc and it all worked.
I purchased another PVR-150 MCE so I could simultaneously watch TV & record. I put it in a PCI slot, and searched the forum and wiki for instructions. Unfortunately, I got very confused as they were a bit conflicting, so I followed the wiki at:
http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page ... stallation

Here are my files:

mythtv@mythtv:/usr/src$ cat /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
#options tuner type=50
#options ivtv debug=0
options ivtv ivtv_debug=0
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
options saa7127 i2c_enable=1,-1
options cx25840 i2c_enable=1 no_black_magic=1
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa7115; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb; /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -r saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 && /sbin/modprobe -r tuner && /sbin/modprobe e ivtv-fb && /sbin/modprobe -r lirc_i2c


mythtv@mythtv:/usr/src$cat /etc/modprobe.d/ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev

alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c

#options ivtv tuner=47

options saa7127 i2c_enable=-1

options cx25840 i2c_enable=1 no_black_magic=1



Then I started mythtv-setup and added a second tuner (MPEG-Decoder on /dev/video1 for tuner0) and linked it to my datadirect subscription in input connections.

I also set up host-specific backend setup to do 2 simultaneous jobs in the backend
I had already setup the frontend to use the hardware decoder for pvr350 earlier.

Now, whenever I watch tv in mythfrontend, the picture is slow and almost like a slideshow, as is the sound. It's almost like its trying to play back in software, not hardware. After a while, the frontend crashes, and the backend-frontend connection is reported broken.

I believe that ivtv has detected the pvr150, as:
mythtv@mythtv:/usr/src$ ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -a|grep PVR
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_OUTPUT failed
Card type : WinTV PVR 150
mythtv@mythtv:/usr/src$ ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -a|grep PVR
Card type : WinTV PVR 350


I also did the following:

$ cat /dev/video0>foobar.mpeg
^c after 10 secs
$ cat /dev/video0>foobar2.mpeg
^c after 10 secs

both files contained video & mplayer played them back

I searched the forums, but nothing I found really helped, and only confused me more. I was hoping some kind sould could guide me in fixing the mess that is my ivtv config (presumably that's where the problem is).

Please help me.

Regards,
AR