[mythtv-users] WinTV PVR-500 (PVR-150 x 2) with unstable video, green lines, allergy to the color white

[Tuxd00d]

This is a driver issue and it has already been asked on
ivtv-users at ivtvdriver.org.  I'm just asking it here in case someone
wants to have a try at it.  Or maybe someone has had the same issue?
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It's hard to explain what it looks like.  Please reference sample.
Thanks for your help.

Video sample:
http://tuxd00d.com/ivtv/ivtv_sample.mpg

Frame from video sample:
http://tuxd00d.com/ivtv/ivtv_sample.png

I compiled the driver from the source but it did not fix the problem.

If I remember correctly, the problem started after upgrading from
"Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)" to "Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)", but it could
have been from "Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)" to "Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)."

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"

$ uname -a
Linux mythTVServer 2.6.24-21-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Mon Aug 25 19:24:40
UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

  $ md5 /lib/firmware/2.6.24-21-rt/v4l-cx2341x*
305dba74bbe5905447add8883f3ecb68
/lib/firmware/2.6.24-21-rt/v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
9b39b3d3bba1ce2da40f82ef0c50ef48
/lib/firmware/2.6.24-21-rt/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
0661f8b2693fe3123e6234557353eacc
/lib/firmware/2.6.24-21-rt/v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg

$ ivtvctl -d /dev/video4 --version
ivtvctl version 1.1.0 (tagged release)

$ grep ivtv /var/log/dmesg
[   66.961250] ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.1.0
[   68.096589] ivtv0: Initializing card #0
[   68.096679] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
[   68.127175] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
[   68.141841] tuner 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   68.146395] tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   68.146938] tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   68.827295] ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
[   69.328409] cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   69.409708] wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   69.477805] ivtv0: Registered device video3 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
[   69.477926] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
[   69.478040] ivtv0: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
[   69.478153] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
[   69.478273] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
[   69.478360] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
[   69.478942] ivtv1: Initializing card #1
[   69.479030] ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
[   69.491835] ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
[   69.506329] tuner 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
[   69.509934] tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
[   69.538890] cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
[   69.539305] wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
[   69.724914] ivtv1: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second
unit
[   69.725002] ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2)
[   69.807719] ivtv1: Registered device video4 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
[   69.807843] ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
[   69.807959] ivtv1: Registered device vbi2 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
[   69.808076] ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
[   69.808164] ivtv1: Initialized card #1: WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2)
[   69.808281] ivtv:  End initialization