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Replying to my own email as I finally found the solution, and I
figured it was worth recording for posterity. Maybe if someone else
has this issue in the future they will stumble upon these emails.
Ultimately, the problem was that my firmware was too new.<br>
<br>
The mythtv wiki page mentions this problem:<br>
<br>
"<b>Note:</b> 29-Aug-2011: The latest version of the firmware,
1.6.29207, dated July 27, 2011, causes oversaturation and color
issues with the encoding of the analog signal. Until this is
resolved, you do not want to upgrade to this version. Version 1.5.7,
from June 17, 2010 appears to work. Hauppauge has acknowledged the
issue and provided a link to the earlier firmware for non-Windows
systems on their support page: <a rel="nofollow" class="external
text"
href="http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hdpvr.html">Hauppauge
HD-PVR support</a>"<br>
<br>
Note though that the link included actually points to the latest
driver (1.7.1.30059) which includes an unsupported firmware. This
was confirmed by using:<br>
<br>
dmesg | grep hdpvr<br>
<br>
And noting there was a message indicating that the firmware was not
supported. Digging through Hauppauge's webiste, I finally came
across this page:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_faq_linux.html">http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_faq_linux.html</a><br>
<br>
Which includes a download for the older driver (1.1.5.7.0).
Installing this driver on a WIndows box with the HD PVR connected
flashed the firmware back down to a supported version, and now it
works great with Myth. Hallelujah.<br>
<br>
<br>
On 4/3/2012 8:35 AM, Paul Siegel wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4F7AEEAE.7070204@binkystick.com" type="cite">There
is definitely sound when playing back the .ts file created via
'cat /dev/video0 > test.ts'.
<br>
<br>
On 4/2/2012 10:30 PM, Richard Woelk wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">On 4/2/2012 3:14 PM, Paul Siegel wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Been bashing my head against this one
for a couple days now, was hoping someone on this list might
be able to help. Bought myself an HD PVR, running on an
Ubuntu 11.04 back-end, and custom-built the drivers per this
page:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR#HD-PVR_Driver_Compilation_Howto">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR#HD-PVR_Driver_Compilation_Howto</a><br>
<br>
Using 'cat /dev/video0 > test.ts' works great, the file
plays fine with vlc. However, when I tried to set it up to
work within myth, I get errors. I ran my back-end using '-v
all' in hopes of finding something more useful in the output,
but I'm not seeing anything obvious. Here it is:
<br>
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.948 DevRdB(/dev/video0): buffer size 9400
KB
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.948 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): DRB ready
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.948 MPEGRec(/dev/video0):
HandleSingleProgramPAT(NULL)
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.948 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Initial startup
of recorder
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.948 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Checking
Resolution
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.949 TVRec(1):
SetFlags(RecorderRunning,RingBufferReady,) ->
FrontendReady,RunMainLoop,CancelNextRecording,NeedToStartRecorder,RecorderRunning,RingBufferReady,<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.949 TVRec(1):
ClearFlags(NeedToStartRecorder,) ->
FrontendReady,RunMainLoop,CancelNextRecording,RecorderRunning,RingBufferReady,<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.949 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Got Resolution
1920x1080
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.949 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): StartEncoding
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.950 MSqlQuery::exec(DBManager1) UPDATE
cardinput SET startchan = '4' WHERE cardinputid = '1'
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.951 MSqlQuery::exec(DBManager2) UPDATE
capturecard SET defaultinput = 'Component' WHERE cardid = '1'
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:18.964 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Encoding started
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.467 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving
up
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.467 DevRdB(/dev/video0): fill_ringbuffer:
error state
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.467 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device
error detected
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.467 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): RestartEncoding
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.468 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): StopEncoding
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.641 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Encoding stopped
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.641 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Checking
Resolution
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.642 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Got Resolution
1920x1080
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.642 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): StartEncoding
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:21.657 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Encoding started
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:24.167 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving
up
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:24.168 DevRdB(/dev/video0): fill_ringbuffer:
error state
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:24.172 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device
error detected
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:24.172 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): RestartEncoding
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:24.172 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): StopEncoding
<br>
2012-04-01 22:50:24.351 MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Encoding stopped
<br>
<br>
Looks like it tries a couple more times before completely
giving up. Given that catting /dev/video0 works fine, I'm
inclined to think this problem is on the myth end, and not the
driver, cables, etc. That said I've run the gamut of trying
different usb ports, cables, turning off legacy usb support in
the bios, etc. I'm always stuck with this same problem.
<br>
<br>
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
<br>
<br>
Paul
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Just a silly thought, When you play the file with VLC, do you
have sound?
<br>
I had an issue with my optical cable that prevented the HDPVR
from recording in mythtv, but recorded fine with cat /dev/video0
<br>
I thought the file played fine, but it had silent audio. (I
don't have speakers on my backend)
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- Richard
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