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Aran Cox wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:25:43PM -0500, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Jeff_Mitchell@accessbusinessgroup.com">Jeff_Mitchell@accessbusinessgroup.com</a> wrote:
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I recently (read: a month or so ago) purchased a pair of PVR-250s, and a
120GB hard drive to upgrade my Myth box, and I've been having some weird
behavior that I'm trying to track down. Every once in a while, I get a
recording that's a 0-length file. Once I get one of these, I'm unable to
get anything out of either card (either through Myth, or via catting to a
file), and I have to restart my Myth box to get things recording again.
Another thing that I ran into was my OS hard disk (a lowly 18GB) getting
filled will log messages from the ivtv driver. I fixed this by just
cronning a job to kill the offending log files hourly. (Yes, I know it's a
nasty hack, but it was done around Thanksgiving, and I seem to remember
being rushed.)
I'm thinking this is caused by the driver getting borked somehow, and I'm
wondering if other people are having the same issue, or if I somehow
managed to screw up the driver installation. Basically, I just need
someone to tell me what I'm getting isn't common, so I can get the courage
to hit the ivtv site, and try reinstalling the driver.
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This is a much discussed issue on ivtv-devel, and you might try upgrading your
ivtv driver. However, since you don't mention anything about what version
of ivtv, mythtv, kernel, or anything else, it's a little hard to say.
Aran
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I will just preface this by saying I am a noob, but I too have (2)
Pvr-250 OEM cards (the ones dubbed Freestyle in so many places) and
have seen some odd behavior as well. Right now I am running Redhat 9 on
Axil Thimm's 2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at kernel. I pretty much followed Jarod's
guide by the letter so I got ALSA, IVTV and the Myth suite through
apt-get. I found very quickly that I had to tweak the modules.conf file
a bit more than the average install:<br>
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alias char-major-81 videodev<br>
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv<br>
<b>alias char-major-81-1 ivtv</b><br>
options ivtv debug=0 <b>num_devices=2</b> mpg_buffers=100<br>
options tuner type=2<br>
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1<br>
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner<br>
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At first the "char-major-81-1" was all I was using, but I was getting
periodic 0 size files. I added the "num_devices=2" line after
scrounging around the IVTV mailing lists.<br>
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I am not sure if my method is the "according to Hoyle" way of doing
things, but right now my box is working so I ain't tounching it again!<br>
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-Sean<br>
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