[mythtv-users] Frustrating popping on a single channel on/dev/video1 of PVR-500

Brian Phillips brian.phillips at gmx.net
Sat Jul 26 23:53:45 UTC 2008


John Drescher wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Brian Phillips
> <brian.phillips at gmx.net> wrote: 
>> Hi,  I have a hauppage PVR-500 that has worked stellar, until a month
>> or so ago.  At that time I changed almost all the hardware in my
>> backend (motherboard, CPU, etc).  All I kept from the old backend was
>> network card, hard drives, and my tuner card.  I also switched from
>> Mythdora4 to Mythbuntu8.04.
>> 
>> Now, on the second tuner of my card I get an annoying popping of the
>> audio/video every so often (completely random AFAIK).  It doesn't
>> happen on the first tuner of the PVR500, so I don't think it's coming
>> from my service provider.  I sure hope it's not hardware damage...
>> 
>> The popping looks like something on the MPEG2 encoding is amiss.  You
>> can see a screenshot of one of the pops here:
>> http://www.et.byu.edu/~bphilli7/pics/pop.png
>> 
>> Any ideas as to what it could be to fix it?  It only happens on one
>> channel, and only happens on one of the two tuners.  It's driving me
>> crazy.  I've been playing around in mythtv-setup looking for ideas,
>> but I'm stumped. 

In talking with other users in my area, it looks like it's the service
provider's problem.  Glad my PVR500 didn't get shocked ;)

Brian



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