[mythtv-users] hdpvr recording o byte files
Eppo Eppleston
eppo120 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 23:43:17 UTC 2009
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:38 PM, john <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 25, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Eppo Eppleston wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:24 PM, john <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have two very early models: a "rev c1" and a "rev c2". The c1 was the
>> very first version, and does not have any cooling at all. The c2 is the c1
>> with a fan added to it. I have had the c1 for over seven months and the c2
>> for almost 6. In that time I have had to power-cycle them (to fix a
>> recording problem) a total 5 times. They have been very reliable.
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>> While Myth's support is still in flux, it has also been very reliable for
>> recording. There are occasional issues with playback, but recording is
>> solid. I have missed recording from time to time, but it has never been
>> because of Myth's HD-PVR module -- mythbackend occasionally goes out to
>> lunch for other reasons.
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>> I am running Myth trunk from around two weeks ago. I believe I am running
>> firmware 1.035. I am using the linux HD-PVR driver from a couple of months
>> ago, but I don't think much has changed since then.
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>> My point is, that while it is possible there is a problem in myth, it is
>> not likely.
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>> I do remember people having trouble with their USB ports. You may want to
>> try plugging the HD-PVR into a different USB port. If you have other USB
>> devices, you may want to try unplugging them, to make sure they are somehow
>> not interfering with the HD-PVR.
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>> What else is happing when the recording fails? Is the CPU or disk under
>> heavy load? The HD-PVR recorder makes use of Myth's input ringbuffer, but
>> that will only save a recording for a few seconds of heavy load. You can
>> increase the size of the ringbuffer by upping the value defined in
>> mythtv-setup (be careful not to run out of RAM).
>>
>> Of course, make sure you have applied the patches recommended on the wiki.
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>> Good luck.
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>>
>> John
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> its good to speak with someone that has experience with the HDPVR. ok,
> first thing is the firmware, all i did was hook it up to a windows box, and
> install the software, and i used to to configure it and capture some video
> to test it. do i need to upgrade the firmware?
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> That would have automatically upgraded the firmware if it was necessary. I
> assume you downloaded the latest software from Hauppauge when you did this.
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> also, i thought those patches were currently incorporated into the current
> build?
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> Then you must not have read the wiki.
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> if not, what is the command to apply the patch? and you apply it before you
> run configure/make?
> hopefully that info should help out.
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> If you don't know how to apply patches, then you probably should not be
> trying to run TRUNK. The development version of Myth is completely
> unsupported. If you are not a contributer towards the project, you will get
> no support with problems related to the TRUNK branch. This does not mean
> you have to be a programmer contributing code, but it does mean that you
> need to have knowledge of how all the pieces work. You need to be able to
> understand the logs, and know how to generate BT to help the developers
> solve segmentation faults.
>
> If you are purely a "user", the development version of Myth should be
> avoided at all cost. Running TRUNK will constantly frustrate you with
> various bugs and crashes. You are much better off using 0.21-fixes and
> waiting for 0.22 to come out.
>
> John
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> the only reason i'm using the svn version is for the hdpvr support. is it
> available in the fixes version?
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