<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Keith Pyle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kpyle@austin.rr.com" target="_blank">kpyle@austin.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm fairly certain that Eric is correct. I've seen nothing but flaky behavior from the HD-PVR (those interested can search the archives for some of my rants, er, reports of my tests) and have never been able to get it usable within MythTV. Instead, I only capture from it using a user-space program that can do automatic recovery when it stops capturing.<br>
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For grins, I connected a second HD-PVR in series (STB -> HD-PVR #0 -> HD-PVR #1) and did a capture on TNT, since this channel seems more prone than others to have problems. Both HD-PVR's terminated their captures at exactly the same point. In general, I see this happen at program/commercial transitions and suspect the STB is dropping some signal (audio?) that the HD-PVR interprets as "done." So, the level of HD-PVR flakiness is very likely influenced by the STB.<br>
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With regard to the original purpose of this thread, I too would be willing to pay for a reliable HD-PVR2 Linux driver. The amount would be dependent on what was to be provided, of course, with consideration for my lower effort and the stress relief of not dealing with the HD-PVR1. I'm not overly found of installing binary blobs but would probably make an exception in this case. Of course, this assumes the continued availability of a STB that has component outputs from my good friends at TWC, that I'm not seduced by Google when/if they get to my "fiberhood" in the next year or so, etc.</blockquote><div> </div><div>Keith, do you have your STB forced to a specific output resolution? I had a lot of success after I forced my STB to output 720p, regardless of source resolution. I believe this is in the Wiki/setup info for the HD-PVR so I am going to assume you have done it, but it doesn't hurt to double-check. Both of my HD-PVR's stopped working so I just cancelled my cable.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div></div></div></div>