[mythtv-users] PVR-250 Recording Glitch

[David Rees]

On Tue, January 6, 2004 at 4:02 am, Douglas Beck wrote:
>
> I've finally picked up a PVR-250 and have it up and running but there is
> one real problem I can't seem to solve:
>
> When recording the video & audio will glitch forward or backwards about
> a second every 10-15 seconds.  What's really strange is that it only
> happens when it's recording.  While watching Live TV or even doing a:
> cat /dev/video0 > /temp/test.mpg the video is perfect.  I've tried every
> conceivable combination of settings but nothing seems to even affect
> this problem let alone solve it.
>
> A little more info:  I'm running the 21288 firmware. 2.4.20_27.9 kernel
> on a AMD 2000XP w/ geforce mx440-8x.

What version of MythTV and ivtv drivers are you using?  If you `cat
/dev/video0 > /tmp/test.mpg` and then move the file to the videos
directory and watch it from there how does it look?

-Dave