[mythtv-users] Latest IVTV driver(PVR-250) CVS and myth

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 23 June 2003 10:24 am, Roby Adams wrote:
> Well,  I got my MythTv box pretty much squared away.  All the modules work
> and everything looks good.  Now that it is stable I decided to get the
> latest cvs of the IVTV driver (I had an pretty old one) and lo and behold
> many of the problems I had with the driver are solved.
>
> No more ghosting is resolutions less than 720x480!
> Bitrate changing works!
> Improved control over brightness and contrast.
>
> All of these I can set via the test_ioctl proggie that comes with IVTV. 
> The only issue that I am seeing is problems with sound when running at a
> different bitrate than the default.  When I change the bitrate and view
> live TV, myth correctly reports the bitrate but there is some sound
> stuttering.  When I changed back to 8000000 and 16000000 peak it goes away.
>  I am not getting any rebuffering messages or any messages from myth at
> all.
>
> I can use the same bitrate settings with mplayer by using "mplayer
> /dev/video0"  That works fine and I get no stuttering.  (It does take a sec
> to sync.)  I can also cat /dev/video0 >sample.mpg and that plays fine.
>
> Is anyone else having this with the latest CVS of IVTV?  If not then it may
> be a soundcard issue or an issue with my build, in which case it would be
> an IVTV users group issue.
>
> Looking for some direction.

It's a mythtv issue that I'm not able to reproduce on any of the 3 machines I 
have access to.  Someone else will have to fix it.

Isaac