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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /><strong>From:</strong> Paul Onley <onley@att.net><br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Sun 23-09-2012 14:51<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 problems with Myth 0.25.2<br /><strong>Attachment:</strong> inline.txt<br /><strong>To:</strong> Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>; <br /><style type="text/css">body { font-family: monospace; }</style> <div style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; ">On 09/23/2012 08:24 AM, Dave Pearson wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:zarafa.505f0d7c.5d4c.1b9a02e12c395d00@zarafa" type="cite"> <style type="text/css"> .bodyclass { font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif ! important; font-size: 12px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px; margin: 0px; border-style: none; background-color: #ffffff; } p, ul, li { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } </style> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /> <strong>From:</strong> George Mari <a href="mailto:george_mythusers@mari1938.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=george_mythusers@mari1938.org'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window"><george_mythusers@mari1938.org></a><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 <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=mythtv-users@mythtv.org'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window"><mythtv-users@mythtv.org></a>; <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 <<a href="mailto:neil@fnxweb.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=neil@fnxweb.com'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">neil@fnxweb.com</a><br /> >> <a href="mailto:neil@fnxweb.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=neil@fnxweb.com'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window"><mailto:neil@fnxweb.com></a>> 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 /> >> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=mythtv-users@mythtv.org'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br /> >> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><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 /> > <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=mythtv-users@mythtv.org'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br /> > <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><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 /> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=mythtv-users@mythtv.org'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br /> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><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> <br /> <br /> <pre wrap="">
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=mythtv-users@mythtv.org'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a> </pre> </blockquote> I am having issues with the PVR-500 (3 of them with identical symptoms actually) that include a distorted picture and the <font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">"Error opening jump program file buffer" problem. Could all of those in this thread please check to see if there is a coinciding entry in their syslog like <br /> <br /> ivtv0: Encoder has died : ivtv_serialized_open <br /> ivtv0: Detected in ivtv_serialized_open that firmware had failed - Reloading <br /> <br /> <br /> </font></font></div> </blockquote><p>Yes, I've got that in my syslog:</p><p> </p><p>Sep 23 15:45:53 nslin01 kernel: [194952.355339] ivtv0: Encoder has died : ivtv_serialized_open</p><p>Sep 23 15:45:53 nslin01 kernel: [194952.355344] ivtv0: Detected in ivtv_serialized_open that firmware had failed - Reloading</p><p>Sep 23 15:45:54 nslin01 kernel: [194953.404361] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)</p><p>Sep 23 15:45:54 nslin01 kernel: [194953.470965] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Although it coincides with a quick mplayer test that I did which didn't show the picture distortion.</p><p> </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Dave.<br /> </p>
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