<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks, Gary, the suggestion to use dd=/dev/video0 is brilliant! I had forgotten about low-level</span></div><div><span>troubleshooting, since the card had been working properly for 5+ years.<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>You're absolutely right, the audio has the same problem when using dd=/dev/video0, so it's not a</span></div><div><span>MythTV problem. The dmesg errors look like:</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>[ 1911.814182] ivtv0: Audio has died (Encoder OK) : ivtv_serialized_open<br>[ 1911.919083] ivtv0: Decoder has died : ivtv_serialized_open<br>[ 1911.919090] ivtv0: Detected in ivtv_serialized_open that firmware had failed - Reloading<br>[ 1912.686864] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)<br>[ 1912.711139] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144
bytes)<br>[ 1913.001059] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 bytes)<br>[ 1913.111809] ivtv0: Firmware restart okay</span></div><br><div>These messages appear to be associated with the time I restart dd=/dev/video, not with the time that</div><div>the audio dies. There's doesn't appear to be a message printed when the audio dies. Googling these</div><div>errors <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm getting these messages even after doing a "yum reinstall ivtv-firmware". I've looked through the</div><div>status reports printed by various ivtv and v4l2 utilities and don't see anything obviously wrong.</div><div> Is there any way to run a hardware diagnostic on the card?</div><div> <br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2"
face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Greg Fruth <gf20613@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:03 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 audio quits while recording (Fedora)<br></font><br>
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 19:34, Greg Fruth <<a ymailto="mailto:gf20613@yahoo.com" href="mailto:gf20613@yahoo.com">gf20613@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>....<br>> At this point all I can think of is that it's some weird problem in<br>> introduced in MythTV in<br>> April or a real hardware failure in the card or my mainboard.<br><br>To rule out MythTV (or provide another data point to possibly<br>point in that direction), just use dd from the raw video device to<br>a (mpeg) file, capture sufficient data for your normal failure<br>times (with sufficient additional time), and then take that<br>raw mpeg file and play it in your favorite mpeg player....<br>( dd if=/dev/video0 of=/tmp/test.mpg ).<br><br>I have a hard time believing it is MythTV, since the transport<br>stream that the PVR-350 generates is not modified by<br>MythTV as far as I know, but stranger things have probably<br>happened.......<br><br>I still suspect a failing
PVR-350.<br><br>Gary<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>