[mythtv-users] ivtv and go7007 don't want to play well together

Scott Alfter mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org
Fri May 27 19:04:49 UTC 2005


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My MythTV box is set up with a PVR-350 and a PVR-250MCE.  The latter has been
acting up lately (garbled encoding); I've tried replacing the passive heatsink
with a chipset heatsink/fan and that appeared to work for a while, but now it's
misbehaving again.

I figured I'd give the Plextor TV402U a shot.  I downloaded the Linux driver
from their website, installed it, and got captures working at the command line
without much fuss.  I then set up MythTV to use it.  I had some database
corruption that needed fixing (the table with the input device types had
multiple FireWire entries, probably from running a CVS ebuild in the past), but
once that was fixed, MythTV was playing live TV and recording from the TV402U.

With both the PVR-x50s and TV402U configured, though, after (maybe) one
successful recording from a PVR-x50, they won't do any more recording.  If a
file is successfully recorded, it won't be indexed and scanning through the
file will produce garbled output.  More frequently, though, you'll get a
zero-byte recording.  The TV402U keeps working properly.  Has anyone else
noticed similar behavior?

(Config: Athlon XP 2400+ on an FIC AU13 (nForce2) with 512 MB RAM and a
GeforceFX 5200.  I've observed the same behavior with MythTV 0.18 and 0.18.1.
Currently-installed driver versions are ivtv 0.3.3k for the PVR-x50s and
wis-go7007-linux 0.9.4 for the TV402U.  The underlying system is Gentoo,
running Linux 2.6.9.)

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