[mythtv-users] vertical lines from pvr-500

[Tim Hamer]

i never could get the ivtv for my 150s working from atrpms, but 
compiling from source was easy and worked great.

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 15:03, Marius Schrecker wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>  Back now as Sid is on the mend. I've managed to load my pvr-500 using
>>ivtv 0.3.8 and firmware 0x02050032 and both tuners seem to be working with
>>audio and video, BUT:
>>
>>When I play the stream in mplayer using mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0 (or directly
>>into X11 without the -vo switch) I am getting strange vertical lines appearing
>>in 3 blocks all the way across the picture (playing in mplayer) like this:
>>
>>|||||||
>>|||||||
>>|||||||
>>
>>They also appear capturing from composite in, so have nothing to do with
>>the tuner, and when playing a file written to disk from the 500.
>>These do not appear if I play an mpeg2 file not captured from the 500 (test
>>file from the net), so they are not being generated by the screencard.
>>
>>I can only think this has to do with the paramaters I've used to set up
>>the card. I'm following Jarods wonderful guide and have used the
>>
>>ivtvctl -u 0xff
>>ivtvctl -p 4
>>ivtvctl -f width=720,height=576
>>
>>options to set the card up for PAL
>>
>>Has anyone else seen these lines and what did they do to fix it?
>>
> 
> 
> At this point I would be happy to see vertical lines in the video
> captured using my PVR-500.  :)
> 
> It seems like the only input on my PVR-500 that gets anything (just
> static unfortunately) was 6.  Of course I am trying to run this in NTSC
> mode not PAL mode.  So that may be the difference with that setting.
> 
> And this is on the first tuner on the PVR-500, the second tuner does not
> appear to get anything.
> 
> I am currently trying to use what appears to be ivtv 0.3.7.  The
> firmware I have is listed as dec-2.02.023-4.  All from the ATRPMS repo. 
> 
> Could the problem I'm having be that I don't have the correct ivtv
> drivers/firmware?
> 
> These seem to work just fine with the PVR-350 I have.  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
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