[mythtv-users] TV lasts 1 second then dies

[Marc Tousignant]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of James Colannino
> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 3:10 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] TV lasts 1 second then dies
> 
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> >On 8/6/05, James Colannino <james at colannino.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hey everyone.  I've been googling around trying to find a solution to
> >>this, but haven't found one yet :(  I did find one thread where someone
> >>had the same problem
> >>(http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=30704&) but nobody found a
> >>solution.  Basically, I can view TV for about half a second or so,
> >>afterwhich the image freezes, mythfrontend doesn't respond for about
> >>10-20 seconds, and finally I'm dropped back to the Watch TV menu entry.
> >>I ran mythfrontend in a console and got the following errors:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >
> >>It says that us-bcast (the name of my video source) isn't attached to
> >>the input on the card, but it is (I attached it to Tuner 0).  Does
> >>anyone have any ideas?  Has anyone else had a similiar problem, and even
> >>better, has anyone solved it?  Thanks very much everyone :)
> >>
> >>James
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hi,
> >   I had this same problem recently. I wish I was better at keeping
> >notes, but I believe it was some sort of ivtv problem in my case. I
> >run Gentoo, so I reinstalled the version in Portage (0.2.0 at the time
> >I think) and then installed a newer ivtv over the top. I currently run
> >0.3.7. At that point, for some reason my back end machine won't warm
> >boot ivtv correctly, so I shut down and did a cold reboot. From there
> >on it worked for me.
> >
> >   This may be Gentoo specific for all I know.
> >
> >
> 
> Well actually I'm using Gentoo too :)  I'm using a manually compiled
> ivtv driver (0.3.7a) and it works just fine when I cat /dev/video0, but
> still doesn't work with myth :( I should mention that I'm using a
> PVR-350.  I've tried disabling hardware decoding, playing with
> deinterlacing, and all sorts of other stuff, but I just can't get it to
> work :(
> 
> James

James,

I too am using Gentoo with a 350 and hd3000, and am not experiencing this
issue.
 Here is my working setup.

vanilla kernel 2.6.12
ivtv-0.2.0-rc3k not from portage.

System is up to date with all the ebuilds as of this morning, I sync and
build every weekend. 
I am using x86 ebuilds with the exception of the following in my
package.keywords

media-tv/myth-svn
media-tv/mythtv-svn
media-plugins/mythvideo-svn
media-plugins/mythdvd-svn
media-plugins/mythmusic-svn
media-plugins/mythweather-svn
media-plugins/mythbrowser-svn
media-plugins/mythgallery-svn
media-plugins/mythphone-svn
media-plugins/mythnews-svn
media-plugins/mythgame-svn
www-apps/mythweb-svn
x11-themes/mythtv-themes-svn
media-tv/nuvexport-svn
dev-perl/SOAP-Lite
#media-sound/alsa-utils
media-video/nvidia-kernel
media-video/nvidia-glx
app-misc/lirc
sys-apps/pciutils
#net-misc/vnc
media-video/transcode
media-libs/libquicktime
media-video/ffmpeg
media-tv/nuvexport
x11-base/opengl-update
media-video/dvb-apps
media-libs/a52dec
media-tv/linuxtv-dvb
media-video/lve
media-tv/nuvexport-cvs
media-tv/myththemes-cvs
media-libs/faad2
media-video/dvb-apps-cvs
sys-kernel/vanilla-sources
media-gfx/splashutils
sys-apps/sandbox
sys-apps/portage
media-video/mplayer

I have been working with this setup since Dec of last year without any
problems, even with my constant updating. Also I have always used the
CVS/SVN sources for myth and not the builds in portage.