[mythtv-users] Re: firmware src.rpm upgraded to 1.8 (22035)

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Tue Mar 2 22:14:24 EST 2004


Axel Thimm wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:07:52PM -0500, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>Thomas Börkel wrote:
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>>>HI!
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>>>J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>>>Carl wrote:
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>>>>>Note that there isn't really a firmware change here, just a driver 
>>>>>package change...
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>>>>Are you sure about that?  I notice a HUGE difference in stability of 
>>>>my PVR250 using the firmware from the
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>>>>pvr250_18_22035.exe as instead of the old 21288 (or which ever one 
>>>>Jarod uses).
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>>>Could you please elaborate?
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>>Well in a nutshell the backend would crash, I'd get zero byte 
>>recordings, recording would look like they were horribly mistuned (over 
>>an svideo connection).   Not all at the same time or even every time.  
>>Extracting the firmware from pvr250_18_22035.exe has led to ZERO backend 
>>crashes, and perfect recordings every time (except for one recoding with 
>>no audio).
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>The only difference is indeed only a timestamp. ...
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I dunno what I changed then.  I went from a crash fest to stable and 
that was the only thing I can remember changing.


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