[mythtv-users] Fedora 7 clock drift

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:

> Now I think about it, I seem to remember a thread on here a while  
> back about
> clock drift... can't remember the details, or the resolution to the  
> problem.
> Might have had something to do with what kind of video you're  
> using. Or, a
> sure-fire way to lose clock-ticks is with a serial IR receiver or  
> blaster, which
>   hogs the CPU whilst doing I/O (I think...like I say, it's been a  
> while).
>
> Mike Perkins

It was a problem with ivtv and closed captioning. Maybe only on 64bit  
machines even? I ran into this and solved it by turning off the  
closed captioning on my PVR-150 card. Supposedly it's been fixed by  
newer ivtv modules, but since I didn't use it, I never turned CC back  
on.

-Brad