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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Both
Capture card mysteriously died</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Both
my PVR 250 cards all of a sudden just died. Tuner 0 was happily recording at 2
hour show and 39 minutes (5:39am) into it, it flickered for 2 seconds then just
static/snow. Tuner 1 was also recording and at the exact same time (5:39am), it
also flickered and died. When I use tuner 0 now, its just static/snow, same
with tuner 1. It’s as if someone unplugged my cable.<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u>My troubleshooting steps in the order I did them</u></b><br>
<br>
<b>Tested cable connection</b><br>
Input is analog cable. <br>
I tested the cable by connecting a TV to the cable itself and verified there is
still video and sound, so I know it isn't the cable. The static/snow did get
just slightly darker when I disconnected the cable from the capture cards.<br>
<br>
<b>Tested capture cards</b><br>
I tested the tuners manually by running:<br>
"cat /dev/video0 > ~/test.mpg" then "mplayer -vo xv
~/test.mpg" result was static/snow.<br>
"cat /dev/video1 > ~/test.mpg" then "mplayer -vo xv
~/test.mpg" result was static/snow.<br>
<br>
<b>Rebooted</b><br>
I come from the world of windows, so of course when something goes wrong, you
reboot to fix it. I rebooted my whole linux box and when it came back up I
tested the capture cards again, still static/snow.<br>
<br>
<b>Root</b><br>
I then tried testing out the capture cards as root, hoping I'd get lucky and
for whatever reason it was a permissions issue, nope. Running the manual tuner
testing as root still produced just static/snow.<br>
<br>
<b>dmesg</b><br>
I ran "dmesg | grep ivtv" and got this output:<br>
myth@home:~$ dmesg | grep ivtv<br>
[ 40.702228] ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.1.0<br>
[ 40.702320] ivtv0: Initializing card #0<br>
[ 40.702322] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)<br>
[ 40.723181] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)<br>
[ 40.820037] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250<br>
[ 41.131767] tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)<br>
[ 41.356745] saa7115 2-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c
driver #0)<br>
[ 43.140949] msp3400 2-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)<br>
[ 43.216937] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)<br>
[ 43.216949] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)<br>
[ 43.216961] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)<br>
[ 43.216972] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)<br>
[ 43.216984] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio<br>
[ 43.216986] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250<br>
[ 43.217042] ivtv1: Initializing card #1<br>
[ 43.217045] ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)<br>
[ 43.244820] ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)<br>
[ 43.251201] tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)<br>
[ 43.360991] saa7115 3-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c
driver #1)<br>
[ 43.627431] msp3400 3-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #1)<br>
[ 43.685937] ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250<br>
[ 43.722704] ivtv1: Registered device video1 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)<br>
[ 43.722728] ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)<br>
[ 43.722749] ivtv1: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)<br>
[ 43.722769] ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM (320 kB)<br>
[ 43.722771] ivtv1: Initialized card #1: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250<br>
[ 43.723281] ivtv: End initialization<br>
[ 71.039537] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)<br>
[ 71.236549] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039<br>
[ 129.739588] ivtv1: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)<br>
[ 129.938646] ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02060039<br>
myth@home:~$ <br>
<br>
After which I tried testing the cards manually again, got nothing but static
/snowagain.<br>
<br>
<b>lspci</b><br>
I ran lspci -v and got this:<br>
05:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416)
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)<br>
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250<br>
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20<br>
Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]<br>
Capabilities: <access denied><br>
<br>
05:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416)
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)<br>
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250<br>
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21<br>
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]<br>
Capabilities: <access denied><br>
<br>
<br>
<b>Logs</b><br>
I checked all the logs (system, daemon.log, debug, kern.log, messages,
user.log) for any errors or anything for around 5:39am (time it went from
happily recording picture/sound and died to static/snow) and don't see any
entries for that time.<br>
<b><br>
Anyone have any ideas??</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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