[mythtv-users] vertical lines from pvr-500

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 15:03, Marius Schrecker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Back now as Sid is on the mend. I've managed to load my pvr-500 using
> ivtv 0.3.8 and firmware 0x02050032 and both tuners seem to be working with
> audio and video, BUT:
> 
> When I play the stream in mplayer using mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0 (or directly
> into X11 without the -vo switch) I am getting strange vertical lines appearing
> in 3 blocks all the way across the picture (playing in mplayer) like this:
> 
> |||||||
> |||||||
> |||||||
> 
> They also appear capturing from composite in, so have nothing to do with
> the tuner, and when playing a file written to disk from the 500.
> These do not appear if I play an mpeg2 file not captured from the 500 (test
> file from the net), so they are not being generated by the screencard.
> 
> I can only think this has to do with the paramaters I've used to set up
> the card. I'm following Jarods wonderful guide and have used the
> 
> ivtvctl -u 0xff
> ivtvctl -p 4
> ivtvctl -f width=720,height=576
> 
> options to set the card up for PAL
> 
> Has anyone else seen these lines and what did they do to fix it?
> 

At this point I would be happy to see vertical lines in the video
captured using my PVR-500.  :)

It seems like the only input on my PVR-500 that gets anything (just
static unfortunately) was 6.  Of course I am trying to run this in NTSC
mode not PAL mode.  So that may be the difference with that setting.

And this is on the first tuner on the PVR-500, the second tuner does not
appear to get anything.

I am currently trying to use what appears to be ivtv 0.3.7.  The
firmware I have is listed as dec-2.02.023-4.  All from the ATRPMS repo. 

Could the problem I'm having be that I don't have the correct ivtv
drivers/firmware?

These seem to work just fine with the PVR-350 I have.