[mythtv-users] Both capture cards mysteriously died at the same time

[Steve Herber]

In my area the cable company has been eliminating the analog signals.
You might want to check your cable source.

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Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services	home: 425-454-2399

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Edgar Chen wrote:

> Both Capture card mysteriously died
>
>  _____
>
> Both my PVR 250 cards all of a sudden just died. Tuner 0 was happily
> recording at 2 hour show and 39 minutes (5:39am) into it, it flickered for 2
> seconds then just static/snow. Tuner 1 was also recording and at the exact
> same time (5:39am), it also flickered and died.  When I use tuner 0 now, its
> just static/snow, same with tuner 1. It's as if someone unplugged my cable.
>
>
>
>
> My troubleshooting steps in the order I did them
>
> Tested cable connection
> Input is analog cable.
> I tested the cable by connecting a TV to the cable itself and verified there
> is still video and sound, so I know it isn't the cable. The static/snow did
> get just slightly darker when I disconnected the cable from the capture
> cards.
>
> Tested capture cards
> I tested the tuners manually by running:
> "cat /dev/video0 > ~/test.mpg" then "mplayer -vo xv ~/test.mpg" result was
> static/snow.
> "cat /dev/video1 > ~/test.mpg" then "mplayer -vo xv ~/test.mpg" result was
> static/snow.
>
> Rebooted
> I come from the world of windows, so of course when something goes wrong,
> you reboot to fix it. I rebooted my whole linux box and when it came back up
> I tested the capture cards again, still static/snow.
>
> Root
> I then tried testing out the capture cards as root, hoping I'd get lucky and
> for whatever reason it was a permissions issue, nope. Running the manual
> tuner testing as root still produced just static/snow.
>
> dmesg
> I ran "dmesg | grep ivtv" and got this output:
> myth at home:~$ dmesg | grep ivtv
> [ 40.702228] ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.1.0
> [ 40.702320] ivtv0: Initializing card #0
> [ 40.702322] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
> [ 40.723181] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> [ 40.820037] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
> [ 41.131767] tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> [ 41.356745] saa7115 2-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @ 0x42 (ivtv
> i2c driver #0)
> [ 43.140949] msp3400 2-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> [ 43.216937] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
> [ 43.216949] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
> [ 43.216961] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
> [ 43.216972] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
> [ 43.216984] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
> [ 43.216986] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
> [ 43.217042] ivtv1: Initializing card #1
> [ 43.217045] ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
> [ 43.244820] ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> [ 43.251201] tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
> [ 43.360991] saa7115 3-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @ 0x42 (ivtv
> i2c driver #1)
> [ 43.627431] msp3400 3-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
> [ 43.685937] ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
> [ 43.722704] ivtv1: Registered device video1 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
> [ 43.722728] ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
> [ 43.722749] ivtv1: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
> [ 43.722769] ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
> [ 43.722771] ivtv1: Initialized card #1: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
> [ 43.723281] ivtv: End initialization
> [ 71.039537] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
> [ 71.236549] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> [ 129.739588] ivtv1: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
> [ 129.938646] ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> myth at home:~$
>
> After which I tried testing the cards manually again, got nothing but static
> /snowagain.
>
> lspci
> I ran lspci -v and got this:
> 05:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
> Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
>
> 05:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
> Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
>
>
> Logs
> I checked all the logs (system, daemon.log, debug, kern.log, messages,
> user.log) for any errors or anything for around 5:39am (time it went from
> happily recording picture/sound and died to static/snow) and don't see any
> entries for that time.
>
> Anyone have any ideas??
>
>  _____
>
>
>
>
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