[mythtv-users] PVR150 gives black screen with audio on channel change

[Karl Newman]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:

>
> > On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 22:08 +1200, Robin Gilks wrote:
> >> > On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:48:50 +1200, you wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> > the mythcommflag --rebuild command.  Not all recordings from the
> >> > PVR-500 get bad recordedmarkup data, but quite a few do.
> >> >
> >> > I do not think I have ever recently been watching something recording
> >> > on the PVR-500 when it stopped recording - if I have, I did not have
> >> > anything strange happen.
> >> >
> >> > So it would pay to check if you can actually do scheduled recordings
> >> > correctly, even if LiveTV is not working very well.
> >>
> >> Scheduled recordings are fine provided I wait until they have finished
> >> recording entirely or I get the same seek problems.
> >>
> > Robin,
> > Do you build from source ?
> > From what I can tell the ivtv recording uses the findpskeyframes
> > function etc.
> > I have been testing this function on ts recordings & think this fn (&
> > the way it is called) can be improved.
> > Are you interested in trying a few patches?
> >
> > Brett
>
> I'm using Gentoo so you could say I'm building from source :)
>
> If I can remember how to put together a local ebuild with the extra patch
> file then fine. Not sure how much time I'll have over the next few weeks
> though as we're in the middle of earthquake repairs!!


I'm also using Gentoo. The Gentoo mythtv ebuilds use epatch_user, which
means it will pick up patches (files with the extension .patch) in
/etc/portage/patches/media-tv/mythtv/ so it's easy to patch without
creating a local ebuild.

Karl
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