[mythtv-users] Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more ideas?

[Tyler Drake]

I have a PVR 250, and am (sometimes) seeing the freezes.

--Tyler
 
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>I have a pvr350 and am seeing the freezes.
>
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>John Timon
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>From: peloy at chapus.net [mailto:peloy at chapus.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:18 AM
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>Curtis Wood <curtis at penguinbrat.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I've had a few of these my self - mostly on 0.12 though... The one
>> thing I noticed that improved this 10 fold - was the fine tuning...
>> Fine tune it (the finetune field in the database) until there is way
>> to much color - and then use the adjustments to make it look right...
>> Dont just finetune it untill it looks right though - over tune it, and
>> then use the adjustments - my thinking is that when it is overtuned,
>> it has a very strong signal type of thing...
>
>OK, I am also experiecing the infamous frontend freezes that have been
>haunting some of us lately, but I fail to see how fine-tuning would improve
>the situation. We need to remember that just recording a show works
>perfectly. It's only when watching live TV that the freezes occur. So, if
>the signal is not perfect and a fine-tune would fix it, why there are no
>problems when recording, but there are when watching live TV? I would think
>that if the signal is not perfect you would record a low-quality signal,
but
>you shouldn't have problems like freezes. Can a developer throw in some
>random thoughts about this?
>
>It would also be nice to know what TV tuner card people having this problem
>are using. I personally have an ATI TV Wonder VE (bt878-based.) I assume
>people with PVR 250s and 350s are not seeing the freezes. Can anyone
>confirm?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Eloy.-
>
>> Curtis
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 14:06, Tony Maro wrote:
>>> Well, I still can't watch more than 15 minutes or so of live TV
>>> without a freeze.
>>>
>>> Here's what the system is:
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