<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 25, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Eppo Eppleston wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:24 PM, john <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jppoet@gmail.com">jppoet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> I have two very early models: a "rev c1" and a "rev c2". The c1 was the very first version, and does not have any cooling at all. The c2 is the c1 with a fan added to it. I have had the c1 for over seven months and the c2 for almost 6. In that time I have had to power-cycle them (to fix a recording problem) a total 5 times. They have been very reliable.<br> <br> While Myth's support is still in flux, it has also been very reliable for recording. There are occasional issues with playback, but recording is solid. I have missed recording from time to time, but it has never been because of Myth's HD-PVR module -- mythbackend occasionally goes out to lunch for other reasons.<br> <br> I am running Myth trunk from around two weeks ago. I believe I am running firmware 1.035. I am using the linux HD-PVR driver from a couple of months ago, but I don't think much has changed since then.<br> <br> My point is, that while it is possible there is a problem in myth, it is not likely.<br> <br> I do remember people having trouble with their USB ports. You may want to try plugging the HD-PVR into a different USB port. If you have other USB devices, you may want to try unplugging them, to make sure they are somehow not interfering with the HD-PVR.<br> <br> What else is happing when the recording fails? Is the CPU or disk under heavy load? The HD-PVR recorder makes use of Myth's input ringbuffer, but that will only save a recording for a few seconds of heavy load. You can increase the size of the ringbuffer by upping the value defined in mythtv-setup (be careful not to run out of RAM).<br> <br> Of course, make sure you have applied the patches recommended on the wiki.<br> <br> Good luck.<br><font color="#888888"> <br> <br> John</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>its good to speak with someone that has experience with the HDPVR. ok, first thing is the firmware, all i did was hook it up to a windows box, and install the software, and i used to to configure it and capture some video to test it. do i need to upgrade the firmware?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>That would have automatically upgraded the firmware if it was necessary. I assume you downloaded the latest software from Hauppauge when you did this.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>also, i thought those patches were currently incorporated into the current build?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Then you must not have read the wiki.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>if not, what is the command to apply the patch? and you apply it before you run configure/make?<br>hopefully that info should help out.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>If you don't know how to apply patches, then you probably should not be trying to run TRUNK. The development version of Myth is completely unsupported. If you are not a contributer towards the project, you will get no support with problems related to the TRUNK branch. This does not mean you have to be a programmer contributing code, but it does mean that you need to have knowledge of how all the pieces work. You need to be able to understand the logs, and know how to generate BT to help the developers solve segmentation faults.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are purely a "user", the development version of Myth should be avoided at all cost. Running TRUNK will constantly frustrate you with various bugs and crashes. You are much better off using 0.21-fixes and waiting for 0.22 to come out.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div></body></html>