[mythtv-users] Live TV issues with 0.25 and HD-PVR

[Gerald Brandt]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Goebel" <matt at goebelnet.com>
> To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 3:46:42 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Live TV issues with 0.25 and HD-PVR
> 
> There seem to be some major regressions with live TV in 0.25, or at
> least with my HD-PVR.  With 0.22-0.24 there were lots of issues;
> slow channel changes, occasional drops, and a rare lockup, but for
> the most part it worked fine 90%+ of the time.  Recordings worked
> 99.99% of the time.  After upgrading to 0.25 records all seem to
> work fine as before but live TV is HORRIBLE, it maybe works 10% of
> the time.  Starting live TV or attempting to change channels I get a
> bunch of "error opening jump program file buffer" errors.  Backend
> logs show a generic "MPEGRec(/dev/video0): Device error detected",
> "DevRdB(/dev/video0): Poll giving up 2".
> 
> I DO NOT use the HD-PVR's IR functions, I have a separate IR
> receiver/transmitter that works flawlessly so no need.  I had been
> using the 1.5.7 firmware but since I'm running Fedora 16 /w the
> 3.3.5 kernel I decided to try 1.7.1.  It seems work about the same
> so far (no color issues with the 3.3.5 kernel drivers).
> 
> I assume I am not the only one seeing this, anyone have any ideas
> what might be going on or how I can troubleshoot this maybe a little
> further?  I tried looking for bug reports but that was useless.. way
> too common an issue for a bunch of reasons.

I wish I never moved up to .25.  LiveTV on my HDPVR's is 100% failure for me (1080i).  I'm hoping to test 720p, but it'll be awhile.

I ended up switching to firewire, which has it's own set of problems.  .25 was a bad upgrade.

Gerald