[mythtv-users] Corrupted output from PVR-150

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/24/2008 02:38 AM, Mark Boyum wrote:
> I recently picked up a PVR-150 for about $35 to replace the BTTV card.
>  Unfortunately I think I may have received a bad card.  The recordings
> from the new (to me) PVR-150 look like a really old tv with a bad
> v-hold adjustment.  After a bit of searching I adjusted the
> pci_latency for my SATA controller to be higher than that of the PVRs
> but this does not seem to help.
>
> My original PVR-150 still seams to work without issue; so I am
> guessing that the new card is defective.  I've attached a screenshot
> of what the cards output looks like just in case someone else has seen
> this and might know how to fix.

That cap looks like it's coming from an S-Video input (as it has clean 
edges) rather than from the analog tuner.  If so, perhaps you need to 
reboot the STB.  I used to get similar problems with my DISH network 
receiver unless I rebooted the receiver about 1/mo.

Yes, I seriously rebooted my DISH receiver 1/mo--the DISH receiver that 
I kept connected to my Myth backend that ran for months without a reboot 
or MythTV restart (and then, MythTV only got restarted on Myth upgrade 
and the box only got rebooted on power outages).

Mike