[mythtv-users] HVR-1600 & 1250

[Dale Pontius]

On 09/16/11 21:00, Stephen Atkins wrote:
> On 9/16/2011 4:00 PM, Chris Porter wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Stephen Atkins <satkins at inetdesign.org
>> <mailto:satkins at inetdesign.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello.  I've got an interesting situation.  I've been using and HVR-1600
>>     for a couple of months with no real issues.  I can record an analog and
>>     digital at the same time with no problem.  I never had a problem with
>>     the analog audio which is mentioned in the mythtv wiki on this card.
>>
>>     A couple of days ago I decided to get another card but this time I
>>     thought I would get the HVR-1250 as it is cheap and plentiful.  I
>>     plugged it in and set it up in Myth and everything seemed to work.  I
>>     could have the main HD screen on the HVR-1600 and a HD PIP with the
>>     hvr-1250 so I just left it.  But I noticed last night that there was no
>>     audio on a recording from the hvr-1600 ananlog.  Even watching live
>>     there was no audio.  I tried the trick from the mythtv wiki but that
>>     didn't work.  I removed the hvr-1250 and the audio came back.
>>
>>     So would anyone here know why?  Can these cards co-exist?  Is there a
>>     better mail list I should ask on?
> 
>> I had the same issue but with two HVR-1600's. I blacklisted the cx18
>> driver and loaded it latter in the script which starts mythbackend.
>> Since then I have had a problem with analog on either card.
> 
> Sorry your post is a little confusing in my sleep deprived state.  So 
> with your two 1600 you DO NOT get any analog to work?

I have 2 hvr-1600s, and every now and then one or the other will start
up with no audio on the analog side.  Another thing that used to happen
more frequently, but now is quite rare is that one or the other would
start up with a red screen - no signal.

In both cases, my current fix has been to unload and reload the drivers,
which has worked every time so far.  For my particular hvr-1600s it
takes unloading quite a few drivers:
rmmod cx18
rmmod tuner-simple
rmmod tuner-types
rmmod s5h1409
rmmod tveeprom
rmmod dvb-core
rmmod cs5345
rmmod tuner
rmmod cx2341x
rmmod v4l2-common
rmmod videodev
rmmod v4l2-compat-ioctl32

Dale Pontius