[mythtv-users] PVR350 problems with Myth 0.25.2
Paul Onley
onley at att.net
Sun Sep 23 14:04:19 UTC 2012
On 09/23/2012 08:24 AM, Dave Pearson wrote:
>
> -----Original message-----
> *From:* George Mari <george_mythusers at mari1938.org>
> *Sent:* Sat 22-09-2012 19:57
> *Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 problems with Myth 0.25.2
> *To:* Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>;
> On 09/21/2012 08:23 AM, Ken Mink wrote:
> > On 9/12/12 9:59 AM, Tim Scholl wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Neil Bird <neil at fnxweb.com
> >> <mailto:neil at fnxweb.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Around about 12/09/12 09:56, Dave Pearson typed ...
> >>
> >> This won't be any help to you, but I am experiencing
> similar
> >> problems with
> >> my PVR250's (I've got one in my MBE and one in my SBE). I
> >> sometimes get a
> >> flashing stripe about 20% of the height of the screen
> at the top
> >> - it's as
> >> if it's being torn from the image (if that makes any
> sense).
> >>
> >>
> >> OK, time for an AOL moment: me too.
> >>
> >> Except, I have 0.24.x still (with my PVR-350), and I
> only ever
> >> use it (the card) for s-video in: it's not configured for
> TV (and
> >> wouldn't work now, anyway, as all our analogue channels
> have been
> >> turned off).
> >>
> >> Maybe once a month I get a stuffed recording like that (my
> >> flashing strip *seems* to be a distorted checker board
> pattern), and
> >> the problem lasts for the whole recording. I've never
> noticed it
> >> run into another (back-to-back) recording, but that
> situation may
> >> not have ever occurred.
> >>
> >> I had initially thought it was my satellite box, but
> I've come to
> >> believe it's my card (or, at least, PVR-based), and had
> just thought
> >> it was starting to go (so I'm going to get a new s-video
> card for
> >> the new box I'm building up).
> >>
> >> It hasn't always done it, but I couldn't say it started
> after a
> >> Myth update though.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'd save your money and hold off on buying a new card. The
> symptoms I
> >> is see is either the flashing bar, or the same "(flashing strip
> that
> >> *seems* to be a distorted checker board pattern)" that your seeing.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tim Scholl
> >>
> >>
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> >
> > I am seeing the same problems with my PVR-500. I also have a
> HVR-2250 in
> > the same box. It uses the ivtv driver and does not have the
> problem. The
> > issues started with the upgrade to 0.25. I'm currently running
> >
> > MythTV Version : v0.25.2-21-g099533d
> > MythTV Branch : fixes/0.25
> > Network Protocol : 72
> > Library API : 0.25.20120506-1
> > QT Version : 4.7.2
> > Options compiled in:
> > linux release use_hidesyms using_alsa using_jack using_oss
> using_pulse
> > using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl
> > using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb
> > using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_ceton
> using_hdpvr
> > using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libcrypto
> > using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc using_mheg
> > using_opengl_video using_qtwebkit using_qtscript using_qtdbus
> using_v4l2
> > using_v4l1 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_bindings_perl
> > using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_mythtranscode
> > using_opengl using_vaapi using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_live
> > using_mheg using_libass using_libxml2
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> >
> I just saw the same thing this morning on my PVR-350. I'm running
> Fedora 17, kernel 3.5.3-1, MythTV 25.2-1 from RPMFusion.
>
> I somewhat suspect it's a leaky/bulging capacitor I found on my
> PVR-350
> today, however. The card is 7 years old, after all.
>
> On the other hand, other flaky behavior with the ivtv driver
> re-loading
> itself and causing the myth backend to no longer use that tuner do
> coincide with my upgrade at the beginning of the month for Fedora 17.
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> I don't think it's a hardware fault as I have this problem on 2
> PVR250's in 2 separate systems. I suspect it's an IVTV driver problem
> as I finally got around to trying the card outside of mythtv (using
> mplayer /dev/video0 -) this morning and the same thing was happening,
> I quit out of mplayer and ran the command again and the picture was
> OK. I'm not a member of the IVTV mailing list, but it might be worth
> taking a look there to see if it's been reported.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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I am having issues with the PVR-500 (3 of them with identical symptoms
actually) that include a distorted picture and the "Error opening jump
program file buffer" problem. Could all of those in this thread please
check to see if there is a coinciding entry in their syslog like
ivtv0: Encoder has died : ivtv_serialized_open
ivtv0: Detected in ivtv_serialized_open that firmware had failed -
Reloading
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