[mythtv-users] hd-pvr problem recording audio after firmware update
John P Poet
jppoet at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 22:30:09 UTC 2010
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:22 PM, JWA <jwa at macbidouille.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I was having problems with my hd-pvr's recordings (it would have
> breaks in the recordings causing it to miss 30 seconds or so every so
> often). So I decided to update the firmware to see if that would fix
> the problem. The good news is that I no longer have that problem.
> That bad news is that now the audio will randomly not work when
> recording (it worked without a problem before). Usually it will
> record fine for a couple shows, and then when it stops working it
> won't work for any more recordings until I restart mythbackend. I
> tested recording on my Mac (with EyeTV) and had no problem with the
> audio, so I know it's not a hardware problem.
>
> The one odd thing I noticed about the recordings is that the ones that
> don't work say they are aac. I have SPDIF chosen as the input and all
> the recording profiles say AC3 for the audio format. I have tried all
> of the recording profiles and the problem happens with all of them. I
> even tried creating a new recording profile, just to test, but it
> doesn't show up in the front end as an option (which I guess it
> another problem but not that important).
>
> I tried updating to the latest version of Ubuntu (10.04) and MythTV
> (0.23) to see if that would fix it, but I still get the same problem.
>
> I don't know if it's needed, but here's the dmesg output:
>
> [59281.690062] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> [59281.868016] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [59282.067504] hdpvr 1-5:1.0: untested firmware version 0x15, the
> driver might not work
> [59282.380416] hdpvr 1-5:1.0: device now attached to /dev/video0
>
> and here's the modinfo:
>
> filename:
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/hdpvr/hdpvr.ko
> description: Hauppauge HD PVR driver
> author: Janne Grunau
> license: GPL
> srcversion: 9E493050A99F9F194A6B10B
> alias: usb:v2040p4902d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
> alias: usb:v2040p4901d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
> alias: usb:v2040p4900d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
> depends: videodev,v4l2-common
> vermagic: 2.6.32-24-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
> parm: video_nr:video device number (-1=Auto) (array of int)
> parm: hdpvr_debug:enable debugging output (int)
> parm: default_video_input:default video input: 0=Component /
> 1=S-Video / 2=Composite (uint)
> parm: default_audio_input:default audio input: 0=RCA back /
> 1=RCA front / 2=S/PDIF (uint)
> parm: boost_audio:boost the audio signal (bool)
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
Please post the mythbackend log with "-v record".
John
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