[mythtv-users] PVR350 problems with Myth 0.25.2

[Tim Scholl]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Larry Roberts <mythtv at american-hero.com>wrote:

> On 11/21/2012 12:14 PM, George Mari wrote:
>
>> On 10/06/2012 10:07 AM, George Mari wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/05/2012 09:25 AM, Michael Harnden wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quoting George Mari <george_mythusers at mari1938.org**>:
>>>>
>>>>  On 09/24/2012 03:29 AM, Neil Bird wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Around about 23/09/12 19:39, George Mari typed ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  One thing that still remains from before, however, is image ghosting
>>>>>>> - I
>>>>>>> am still getting 2 faint ghost images to the right of the main image
>>>>>>> being shown on the screen.  If you're old enough to remember, it's
>>>>>>> just
>>>>>>> like what we used to see in analog television.  It's actually fainter
>>>>>>> than that, so it's not unwatchable, but you do notice after a minute
>>>>>>> or so.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Hmm, I've been seeing that as well as the flashing (don't recall
>>>>>> both
>>>>>> at the same time, but I stop watching immediately on the flashing).
>>>>>>  My
>>>>>> ghosting, when it happens, is pretty bad, sometimes enough to bin the
>>>>>> recording and try to catch a repeat.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   I'll have to have a look at the ventilation, as (as I've said
>>>>>> elsewhere in the thread) I'm still on older ivtv drivers (CentOS-5)
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> Myth 0.24-fixes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  OK I've finally gotten around to replacing the bad capacitors on my
>>>>> PVR-350.
>>>>>
>>>>> After about 24 hours, the good news is that the ghosting and flashing
>>>>> seem to be gone.  I'm still keeping it well ventilated for a while
>>>>> longer, just to be sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> The bad news is that the ivtv driver just decided to unload/re-load
>>>>> itself again.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I guess I am back in the camp of suffering from the same problem as
>>>>> some others seem to be.  I don't know if it's a combination of this
>>>>> kernel, and Fedora release (17) or what, but it's no fun having to
>>>>> baby-sit the backend and re-load the driver when it dies.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll see if I can find the address for the ivtv mailing list and ask
>>>>> there, since my problem seems to have shifted there.
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>>>> A patch has been posted in this ticket;
>>>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/**ticket/10732#comment:33<http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10732#comment:33>
>>>> Going to try to find some time this weekend to test.
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That looks promising - thanks!
>>>
>>>
>> BTW, I applied this patch to my system running 25.2 from RPMFusion - it
>> seems to work perfectly, restoring my system's reliability. No recording
>> failures on my PVR-350 since I applied it on November 11th.
>>
>> I added a comment to the ticket with more details.
>>
>>
>>  George,
>
> Thanks for the update.  I have been considering making the leap to .26
> just because of this bug.  As someone who has never built mythtv , how hard
> is that to accomplish? Is it possible to do a build of just that file and
> replace the file that is part of the atrpms package? For that matter could
> I take a version from someone elses system running the same kernel and just
> replace with that?
>
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Could someone send me a copy of the 25.2 patched libmythtv.so

Thanks.

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Tim Scholl
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