[mythtv-users] PVR-350 purple and green monolith

[John Harvey]

It sounds like you are using Xv for playback and the
mpeg file wasn't found at start time.
To try this cp the mpeg file to the video out device

dd if=/lib/modules/....mpg /dev/video16 bs=64k

The newere dvb recordings in myth will only play back
via the Xv driver even if the use pvr350 output option
is selected since they are of a form that the 350
won't decode.
As for why they are squished i am not sure but you can
change the aspect ratio setting and that may well be
part of the problem along with maybe having overscan
setup and needing to run the gui & playback with
different settings.

John
John
--- Paul Fowler <Paul.Fowler at reuters.com> wrote:

> My PVR-350 was working fine, I had X-Out, Sky TV
> capture on the 350, and
> two other DVB capture cards.
> I have FC4-1653, I use ivtv 0.4.x and Myth 0.18.
> The Watch TV and Playback all worked fine.
> 
> At the start of april I took the plunge and upgraded
> to Myth 0.19
> And something in the process upgraded ivtv to 0.4.4
> 
> However now, all recordings work fine, I can preview
> them in Media
> Library, but when I watch Live TV or Media Library
> playback I get a
> weird purple and green blocky (non-animated)
> monolith slightly offcentre
> against a black background. Basically nothing will
> playback, (nothing
> except a couple of old pvr350 recordings from last
> november). However
> the frontend gui is working fine and X-Out is fine
> too.
> 
> In my attempts to fix this I have tried rolling back
> to an older version
> if ivtv, but repositiory issues have prevented this
> as dependancies have
> moved on also the atrpms repo thinks I need to
> upgrade to a smp kernel,
> which I doubt very much.
> 
> I have rebuild ivtv driver from source code 0.4.4
> from ivtvdriver.org
> I have checked the firmware filenames and init mpeg
> file (which are in
> /lib/modules as I have no hotplug directory and used
> ln -s to link all
> names so that I only have one version of each file)
> 
> I also noticed that after playing the old pvr 350
> recording, newer dvb
> recordings do play ok but squashed to the same space
> which the monolith
> occupied. On my 14inch tv the monolith is about 15cm
> tall, 4cm wide and
> is located just right of centre.
> 
> Also can anybody confirm the correct settings for
> pvr350 output in myth,
> I may have inadvertantly switch on the wrong mpeg
> library. I do have use
> pvr350 output hardware ticked on.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
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