Hi *

Just short update about MythTV upgrade from R5A16 to R5A22
(EPIA10K, PVR250,1x200GB HHD)

General:
-upgrade went without any problem
-after upgrade in LiveTV/recordings Playback sound start to be choppy (regular ~0.5sec pauses every ~1 sec).
Going to "settings/playback/enable extra audio buffering" solved problem
-so far so good (r5a22 running only 24h - no any problems discovered)


First look changes:
-No more fronted hangs when XvMC enabled and Xv used.
-When XvMC enabled - Xv is still BW, but fading effect is now working
-CPU load dropped from 35-40% to 15-20%

Looks like MythTV going better and better. r5a16 was ver good release. r5a22 is even better.

Cecil, this software is one of most useful and well thought I ever seen. Brilliant.
BIG TTTTHHHHAAAANNNNXXXX !


BTW:
Maybe some mercyfull soul help me with following issues:

1. I added second HDD to my central server. HDD is added with LVM.
Old HDA4 from first HDD is converted to LVM and added to LVM vol.
When I manually mount LVM vol to "/myth" (mount /dev/MythVG/myth /myth) all is OK. But after reboot LVM vol in not mounted.
Of course in /etc/fstab I add "/dev/MythVG/myth /myth auto defaults,auto 0 2".

My suspicion was that LVM isn't starting at boot time. So I enter "update-rc.d lvm defaults", but it didn't help.

I go to MythWiKi and found that I need enter "update-rc.d lvm start 26 S . stop 82 1 ."

Ok, now LVM vol is mounted automagically after boot, but during boot I receive tons of messages
like "open failed: no such device or address" for almost all devices located in "/dev".

I suspect that it is result of not optimal start LVM via "update-rc.d lvm start 26 S . stop 82 1 .

How can I improve this situation ?

2. My EPIA has only one Eth port. I want to run my MythServer also as Internet gateway/firewall.
I plan to use USB-Eth adapter for introducing second Eth intfs (Internet side).
I bought already Billionton ThumbLAN USBKR-100B (RTL1850 based). Device is recognized by system. Here are entries from syslog

Oct 22 11:19:55 mythtv lircd-0.7.2pvr150[3960]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Oct 22 11:21:04 mythtv kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Oct 22 11:21:06 mythtv kernel: drivers/usb/net/rtl8150.c: rtl8150 based usb-ethernet driver v0.6.2 (2004/08/27)
Oct 22 11:21:06 mythtv kernel: drivers/usb/net/rtl8150.c: eth%%d: rtl8150 is detected
Oct 22 11:21:06 mythtv kernel: usbcore: registered new driver rtl8150
Oct 22 11:21:06 mythtv usb.agent[6151]: rtl8150: loaded successfully

But when I type ifconfig, only lo and eth0 are present. No USB0.
How can configure system to create & use this adapter as second Eth intf ?

Milion than in advance !

The #1 problem seems to be harmless. My LVM does it too. It tries to look at every darned device in my system that *could* be a disk drive and try to make some kind of LVM volume out of it. It scans through all the SCSI and USB stuff and gives me those same "errors". I just ignore 'em without problem. I was looking through the LVM stuff and there's a way you can tell LVM to ignore most of your /dev devices but I didn't actually go through with it.

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Thx for explanation !