<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;">
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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>
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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>
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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>
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My point is, that while it is possible there is a problem in myth, it is not likely.<br>
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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>
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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>
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Of course, make sure you have applied the patches recommended on the wiki.<br>
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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?<br>
<br>also, i thought those patches were currently incorporated into the current build?<br>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>
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