[mythtv-users] PVR-250 and MythTV 0.12/IVTV upgrade issues

[Steve]

Since upgrading from 0.11 to MythTV 0.12 and CVS'd IVTV about 4 days ago
I've been experiencing poor recording quality, from a slight blur to the
point where my mpeg2 player (zoomplayer/windvd codec/winxp) has difficultly
playing the file (video and sound is skipping). My immediate thought is
it's a IVTV/firmware thing, so I've spent the last few days mixing and
matching various firmware versions and the CVS and "alpha" tarball of IVTV,
with no luck.  Rebooting or unloading/reloading the ivtv module doesn't
work.  Since I don't use the MythTV frontend, another idea is that I'm
missing some PVR setting available when using the frontend code. Any ideas?

*** Firmware versions I've tried:
pvr250_17_21199.exe
pvr250_17_21226.exe

*** /etc/modules.conf:
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
options ivtv debug=1 mpg_buffers=100
options tuner type=2
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner

*** Kernel:
2.4.21-0.13mdk

*** Relevant syslog messages:
ivtv: ivtv ioctl: set bitrate=8000000 < peak=4500000: failed
ivtv: You've not seen the last of willy!
ivtv: Not enough free buffers, stream 0

*** lspci -v:
00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4001
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
        Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>