[mythtv-users] Anybody have both bttv/ivtv cards working?

[Seth Heckard]

I have a PVR 250 Freestyle and a old WinTV/401.  I am using the
ivtv-0.1.9 drivers with the stock kernel 2.4.23 BTTV.  Also, I am
running Myth CVS from two days ago.  Debian unstable if it matters, and
everything was compiled myself (no packages).

Anyway, the PVR 250 card works great by itself.  But due to the schedule
change of Ed to Fridays, now Ed and Boston Public are on at the same
time.  The last two or three weeks I have not been able to get a
complete record of Ed (using the 250), however Boston Public records
without fail on the WinTV card.

What happens is the PVR card seems to die after a random amount of time,
sometimes 50 minutes, sometimes 2 minutes.  The BTTV card keeps chugging
along -- obviously mythbackend is fine.  For the life of me I cannot
find any log entries related to the death of the 250 at the time of the
error.  Mythbackend also doesn't report anything unusual.  If I reload
the ivtv stuff, I can use the card again, but it's somewhat unstable and
leads to noise in the mpeg file.

I recently upgraded to the new myth CVS and the new ivtv.  I've had this
problem long ago with 0.11 or 0.12 myth, and didn't care too much
because I didn't have anything on a regular basis to record
simultaneously.  Since then I've tried different combinations of every
driver/kernel/etc. with no luck.

Is there anyone who has this working?  And if so, what versions of the
drivers/myth are working for you?  Thanks.

-- 
Seth Heckard / seth at heckard.com