[mythtv-users] RE: PVR250 and Empty Mpeg files

[Adrian Burden]

Hi, what firmware file did you use?

DBakker at arrayasolutions.com wrote:

>I fixed my issues by reverting back to my original firmware. I used the 
>latest and greatest and  started to get these issues. I use my cards for 
>other things (videolan) and those applications were having the same 
>problems. If you are around when it starts writing a zero length file. 
>Stop myth and try from the command line:
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>cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test.mpg
>It should fill up with mpg video. For mine it didnt do anything.  I went 
>to my previous firmware and everything is fine now
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>MegaDeTH <megadeth at geekopolis.com> 
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>>- Isaac was right in that this is off topic - but if you need more help,
>>Im no pro at it (just got it working) but you can email me personally.
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>It was off topic, several months ago but, it no longer seems to be off 
>topic!
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>They now seem to be closely related, and not specifically ivtv or 
>mythtv, case in point,  my IVTV drivers were fine until ~.12, then I 
>started having big problems with ivtv.
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>I dont see all these problems when using cat /dev/video0 or /dev/video1 
>they are specific to mythtv.  I'm not longer able to set the resolution 
>or audio bitrates with test_ioctl, myth seemed to override them.
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>Now I've got it fixed, by upgrading ivtv, but ghosting is back again, 
>the ivtv drivers are seriously crap lately, they were pretty good, but 
>went way way backwards.
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>The only way I was able to fix, without having either broken audio, or 
>broken video, or 0 byte files, or completely crashing my system (SMP bug 
>in ivtv) was to downgrade myth and ivtv to November 1st, all problems 
>went away!
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>I'm waiting for ivtv to catch up to mythtv, right now they appear to be 
>incompatible.   I did finally get it to work, with a patch that was 
>posted to the ivtv list, that fixes the tinny audio, on top of current 
>CVS, but I have ghosting again, they fixed that MONTHS ago, and now it's 
>back.
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>As far as I can tell, the Jens Axboe code was split back before the 
>ghosting was fixed, or they reinserted the ghosting back into the cvs :(
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>I'm waiting on upgrading myth to .12+, I'll wait till I see positive 
>posts about the ivtv drivers, I'm being more cautious now.
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