[mythtv-users] PVR-250 Recording Glitch

[Douglas Beck]

David Rees wrote:

>On Tue, January 6, 2004 at 4:02 am, Douglas Beck wrote:
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>>I've finally picked up a PVR-250 and have it up and running but there is
>>one real problem I can't seem to solve:
>>
>>When recording the video & audio will glitch forward or backwards about
>>a second every 10-15 seconds.  What's really strange is that it only
>>happens when it's recording.  While watching Live TV or even doing a:
>>cat /dev/video0 > /temp/test.mpg the video is perfect.  I've tried every
>>conceivable combination of settings but nothing seems to even affect
>>this problem let alone solve it.
>>
>>A little more info:  I'm running the 21288 firmware. 2.4.20_27.9 kernel
>>on a AMD 2000XP w/ geforce mx440-8x.
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>What version of MythTV and ivtv drivers are you using?  If you `cat
>/dev/video0 > /tmp/test.mpg` and then move the file to the videos
>directory and watch it from there how does it look?
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I'm running the ivtv driver version:
# rpm -q ivtv
ivtv-0.1.7-19.rh9.at

When I copy the file into the videos directory after catting it to a 
file it plays flawless.  The glitches are always in the same spot so it 
seems to be on the recording side.

Thanks,
Doug