<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Ron Garrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ron.garrison@gmail.com">ron.garrison@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;">
You could try setting the hdpvr_debug level in the kernel level<br>
options to see if dmesg might give you some info.<br>
<br>
I just got my hdpvr working last night, and the little I've played<br>
with it it seems to be working quite well. I compiled from the<br>
22-fixes branch which I updated last night. What I learned along the<br>
way (which probably has no bearing on your issue, but you never know -<br>
it might trigger something to try).<br>
<br>
If you have SP/DIF selected, but your optical is not hooked up (or you<br>
hooked it to the output instead of the input like I did), the<br>
recording will fail.<br>
<br>
The patches mentioned on the wiki page turned out to be very important<br>
for me. Without the patches, It would work until I changed a channel.<br>
Not sure if mythbuntu incorporates these or not.<br>
<br>
I have my box set at 720P I believe (I did this a long time ago and<br>
haven't gone back to verify), but the wiki indicates this should no<br>
longer be an issue. I was planning on experimenting this weekend.<br>
<br>
I am using VDPAU and haven't tryed without. It was so easy to setup<br>
and worked out of the box. I'm running an i5 (2.66 GHz) and during<br>
live TV I get 1 to 2% CPU usage on one of the CPUs.<br>
<br>
Hopefully something will point you in the right direction. Good luck.<br>
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Ron<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I just wanted to add my 2 cents in here with my experience with the HD-PVR. I've been trying to get this working for about 4 weeks (not solid, I have been using the firewire successfully in the interim). I had a fairly recent firmware installed out of the box (0x0f), but try as I might using the information in the HD-PVR wiki, the backend would fail on all recording attempts. I started over by upgrading the firmware at Hauppaugue web site. It now sits at 0x12. After re-adding the HD-PVR to the backend, I actually got a recording to be made with no errors in the log file; however, the recording itself was unwatchable. The recording would "stutter"; it would play fine for 2-5 seconds then stop as if it had been paused on a single frame for 1-2 seconds and then repeat. After searching the recent posts and finding your post, I decided to go back and change the output of my DCH3200 to 720p (it was at 1080). I had left it at 1080 because, as you pointed out, the wiki said this step should no longer be required. I am here to say that when I changed to 720, not only did I get no errors while recording, but the playback was flawless. So I would say, at least in my case, 720p output is required.<br>
<br>-- Ken <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br>
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