[mythtv-users] Frustrating popping on a single channel on /dev/video1 of PVR-500

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 18:03:09 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,  I have a hauppage PVR-500 that has worked stellar, until a month or so
> ago.  At that time I changed almost all the hardware in my backend
> (motherboard, CPU, etc).  All I kept from the old backend was network card,
> hard drives, and my tuner card.  I also switched from Mythdora4 to
> Mythbuntu8.04.
>
> Now, on the second tuner of my card I get an annoying popping of the
> audio/video every so often (completely random AFAIK).  It doesn't happen on
> the first tuner of the PVR500, so I don't think it's coming from my service
> provider.  I sure hope it's not hardware damage...
>
> The popping looks like something on the MPEG2 encoding is amiss.  You can
> see a screenshot of one of the pops here:
> http://www.et.byu.edu/~bphilli7/pics/pop.png
>
> Any ideas as to what it could be to fix it?  It only happens on one channel,
> and only happens on one of the two tuners.  It's driving me crazy.  I've
> been playing around in mythtv-setup looking for ideas, but I'm stumped.
>
Any errors in your dmesg output?

John


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