[mythtv-users] State of the PVR150/250 in 0.26?

[Ian Jackson]

Thanks for the reply.

I'm seeing the live tv lockups that everybody else is seeing, but I'm also
seeing lockups anytime the pvr150 is used. My entire machine hard locks and
requires a hard reboot. Once I remove the pvr150 from the tuners, the
system is once again stable.  I've checked through the logs, and I don't
see anything that interesting. I have also done memory tests, to see if
that was a problem. It just seems to be isloated to the tuners themselves.
However, it's not a big problem, as I prefer to record in hd.




On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Matt S. <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Ian Jackson <prosonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been using mythtv on and off for better part of the decade. I've
> gone
> > through a number of hardware upgrades. For the last couple years, I've
> been
> > running the hvr1250 as my primary tuner card. I've kept a the pvr150 in
> the
> > machine as backup. However, with a recent upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04, I've
> seen
> > numerous lockups, which go away as soon as I disable (not uninstall) the
> > pvr150. I've also tried the pvr250 to the same results. Are these cards
> now
> > considered legacy? I've considered upgrading to the hvr2250. Is now the
> time
> > to retire the tuners?
> >
> > Also as part of the shift to digital, my cable provider (Shaw) has
> recently
> > removed cable-fm. Is anybody still working on an FM Radio plugin? I know
> the
> > answer is "use online streams", but the radio station I listen to
> > (Sonic102.9 Edmonton) has hidden their stream behind a flash player that
> I
> > haven't been able to figure out how to extract the raw feed from.
> >
> > Finally, I'm also a siriusxm subscriber. It seems the last upgrade of
> their
> > website broke almost every softplayer out there. Has anybody figure a
> > workaround at all? The best I can do is use the app on my phone.
> >
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > ______
>
> The PVR-150/250/500s work great in 0.26.... with one major exception: Live
> TV.
>
> I have a PVR-250 and PVR-500 that I still use to record the occasional
> show on analog cable.  It works basically 100% of the time for
> recordings.
>
> However, in 0.26, they hang mythfrontend anytime you try and watch
> Live TV.  This has been seen by many users.  From what I can tell,
> it's probably any of these IVTV/V4L2 based analog tuners... so
> upgrading to a newer hauppauge hybrid analog/digital tuner probably
> would suffer the same issues.  If Live TV tries to leverage my analog
> tuners - it'll fail - every time.
>
> You have a few options:
> 1) Don't watch Live TV - or -
> 2) Disable your analog tuners from being leveraged in livetv (I
> believe by setting them to 0 in live tv order in mythsetup, but could
> be wrong) - or -
> 3) Don't use 0.26 (until(if) the issue is fixed)
>
> See the following bug reports:
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11229
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11211
>
> Overall - support for these devices are not going away.  The devs have
> not discussed deprecating or removing support for these devices at
> all.
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