[mythtv-users] PVR350 problems with Myth 0.25.2

Michael Harnden mike at rochestervball.com
Fri Oct 5 14:25:12 UTC 2012


Quoting George Mari <george_mythusers at mari1938.org>:

> On 09/24/2012 03:29 AM, Neil Bird wrote:
>> Around about 23/09/12 19:39, George Mari typed ...
>>
>>> One thing that still remains from before, however, is image ghosting - I
>>> am still getting 2 faint ghost images to the right of the main image
>>> being shown on the screen.  If you're old enough to remember, it's just
>>> like what we used to see in analog television.  It's actually fainter
>>> than that, so it's not unwatchable, but you do notice after a minute
>>> or so.
>>
>>   Hmm, I've been seeing that as well as the flashing (don't recall both
>> at the same time, but I stop watching immediately on the flashing).  My
>> ghosting, when it happens, is pretty bad, sometimes enough to bin the
>> recording and try to catch a repeat.
>>
>>   I'll have to have a look at the ventilation, as (as I've said
>> elsewhere in the thread) I'm still on older ivtv drivers (CentOS-5) and
>> Myth 0.24-fixes.
>>
> OK I've finally gotten around to replacing the bad capacitors on my PVR-350.
>
> After about 24 hours, the good news is that the ghosting and  
> flashing seem to be gone.  I'm still keeping it well ventilated for  
> a while longer, just to be sure.
>
> The bad news is that the ivtv driver just decided to unload/re-load  
> itself again.
>
> So I guess I am back in the camp of suffering from the same problem  
> as some others seem to be.  I don't know if it's a combination of  
> this kernel, and Fedora release (17) or what, but it's no fun having  
> to baby-sit the backend and re-load the driver when it dies.
>
> I'll see if I can find the address for the ivtv mailing list and ask  
> there, since my problem seems to have shifted there.
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A patch has been posted in this ticket;
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10732#comment:33
Going to try to find some time this weekend to test.
Mike

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