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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /><strong>From:</strong> George Mari <george_mythusers@mari1938.org><br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Sat 22-09-2012 19:57<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 problems with Myth 0.25.2<br /><strong>To:</strong> Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>; <br />On 09/21/2012 08:23 AM, Ken Mink wrote:<br />> On 9/12/12 9:59 AM, Tim Scholl wrote:<br />>><br />>><br />>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Neil Bird <neil@fnxweb.com<br />>> <mailto:neil@fnxweb.com>> wrote:<br />>><br />>> Around about 12/09/12 09:56, Dave Pearson typed ...<br />>><br />>> This won't be any help to you, but I am experiencing similar<br />>> problems with<br />>> my PVR250's (I've got one in my MBE and one in my SBE). I<br />>> sometimes get a<br />>> flashing stripe about 20% of the height of the screen at the top<br />>> - it's as<br />>> if it's being torn from the image (if that makes any sense).<br />>><br />>><br />>> OK, time for an AOL moment: me too.<br />>><br />>> Except, I have 0.24.x still (with my PVR-350), and I only ever<br />>> use it (the card) for s-video in: it's not configured for TV (and<br />>> wouldn't work now, anyway, as all our analogue channels have been<br />>> turned off).<br />>><br />>> Maybe once a month I get a stuffed recording like that (my<br />>> flashing strip *seems* to be a distorted checker board pattern), and<br />>> the problem lasts for the whole recording. I've never noticed it<br />>> run into another (back-to-back) recording, but that situation may<br />>> not have ever occurred.<br />>><br />>> I had initially thought it was my satellite box, but I've come to<br />>> believe it's my card (or, at least, PVR-based), and had just thought<br />>> it was starting to go (so I'm going to get a new s-video card for<br />>> the new box I'm building up).<br />>><br />>> It hasn't always done it, but I couldn't say it started after a<br />>> Myth update though.<br />>><br />>><br />>> I'd save your money and hold off on buying a new card. The symptoms I<br />>> is see is either the flashing bar, or the same "(flashing strip that<br />>> *seems* to be a distorted checker board pattern)" that your seeing.<br />>><br />>><br />>> --<br />>> Tim Scholl<br />>><br />>><br />>> _______________________________________________<br />>> mythtv-users mailing list<br />>> mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />>> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br />>><br />><br />> I am seeing the same problems with my PVR-500. I also have a HVR-2250 in<br />> the same box. It uses the ivtv driver and does not have the problem. The<br />> issues started with the upgrade to 0.25. I'm currently running<br />><br />> MythTV Version : v0.25.2-21-g099533d<br />> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.25<br />> Network Protocol : 72<br />> Library API : 0.25.20120506-1<br />> QT Version : 4.7.2<br />> Options compiled in:<br />> linux release use_hidesyms using_alsa using_jack using_oss using_pulse<br />> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl<br />> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb<br />> using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_ceton using_hdpvr<br />> using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libcrypto<br />> using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc using_mheg<br />> using_opengl_video using_qtwebkit using_qtscript using_qtdbus using_v4l2<br />> using_v4l1 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_bindings_perl<br />> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_mythtranscode<br />> using_opengl using_vaapi using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_live<br />> using_mheg using_libass using_libxml2<br />> _______________________________________________<br />> mythtv-users mailing list<br />> mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br />><br />I just saw the same thing this morning on my PVR-350. I'm running <br />Fedora 17, kernel 3.5.3-1, MythTV 25.2-1 from RPMFusion.<br /><br />I somewhat suspect it's a leaky/bulging capacitor I found on my PVR-350 <br />today, however. The card is 7 years old, after all.<br /><br />On the other hand, other flaky behavior with the ivtv driver re-loading <br />itself and causing the myth backend to no longer use that tuner do <br />coincide with my upgrade at the beginning of the month for Fedora 17.<br />_______________________________________________<br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br /></blockquote><p>I don't think it's a hardware fault as I have this problem on 2 PVR250's in 2 separate systems. I suspect it's an IVTV driver problem as I finally got around to trying the card outside of mythtv (using mplayer /dev/video0 -) this morning and the same thing was happening, I quit out of mplayer and ran the command again and the picture was OK. I'm not a member of the IVTV mailing list, but it might be worth taking a look there to see if it's been reported.</p><p> </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Dave.<br /> </p>
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