[mythtv-users] mpeg2 playback quality captured with PVR-150

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 00:59:24 UTC 2007


> Is there a signal booster in the PVR-150? The signal level is perfect in my
> TV which only is a splitter away from the PVR. But it only does the bars on
> 2 channels out of 25.
>
No. The PVR 500 is the only one I know with a amp.

>
> What scares me the most is the pixelisation and other artifacts.
>
> You were right. I've got some messages in the dmesg.
>
> >ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> >ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
>
> Could that be the cause?
>
This will cause blocky off color artifacts.

John


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