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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>In my experience, this happens frequently to nearly always when the HDPVR is sharing a USB Bus with anything else, or when it is on a USB 1.1 and not a USB 2.0 bus. As root, run lsusb and post the output.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mine looks like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1781:0938 Multiple Vendors Iguanaworks USB IR Transceiver<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0471:0815 Philips (or NXP) eHome Infrared Receiver<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bus 001 Device 013: ID 2040:4900 Hauppauge<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Notice that the Hauppauge entry is the only one attached to Bus 001, the USB 2.0 bus. Until I figured out which USB ports were which and left the HDPVR on its’ own USB 2.0 bus, I couldn’t even do cat /dev/video1 > temp.mpg. And now that my setup looks like the above, I haven’t had this issue for over a year (and now that I’ve said that…).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hope this helps!<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>