[mythtv-users] HDPVR and Live TV - Does anyone have this working?

[Kevin Ross]

On 2/22/2012 4:51 PM, John P Poet wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:28 PM, John Nissley<jnissley at nissley.org>  wrote:
>> I have two HDPVR's since my cable provider has the copy bit set.  The
>> HDPVR is doing a good job recording shows but since my cable provider
>> will start phasing out analog channels I want to get live tv working for
>> my wife.  When I change channels with my HD Home Run in live TV the
>> channel changes fine.  When I try to do the same with the HDPVR 80% of
>> the time I get a failure.  The jist of the failure is that mythtv can
>> not find the ringbuffer file to play from.  The initial channel is found
>> correctly but on channel change is when the failure happens.
>>
>> Is anyone else able to watch live tv from the hdpvr input?
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> I bug was found recently in the HD-PVR kernel driver.  Once that is
> fixed, it should solve your problem.
>
> If you compile from source, I can send you a patch for Myth, that
> seems to help.  Which version of Myth are you running?
>
>
> John

I'd be interested.  I'm running master.  Do you know what kernel version 
will have the fix?

-- Kevin