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

David Jeske jeske at chat.net
Sat Jan 24 23:41:52 EST 2004


I have a PVR-250, and an ATI TV Wonder VE (bttv). I am using
ivtv-0.1.7, and 2.4.20-28_36 from Axel ATrpms, and Myth 0.13. I don't
record Ed or Boston Public, but I have simultaneous records of other
shows and they work fine.

-- Seth Heckard wrote:
> 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
>
>
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