[mythtv-users] HDPVR, 0.23-fixes: encoding errors

[Steven Sartorius]

On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:51 AM, John P Poet wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Steven Sartorius
> <ssartor at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:24 PM, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:24 AM, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Of course, you also need to make sure it is really on /dev/video0.
>>> Some people have reported that the driver indicates that the HD-PVR is
>>> attached to /dev/video0 when in fact it is on /dev/video2 (or some
>>> other combination).  I have never experienced this myself.
>>> 
>>> Mine said /dev/video8 in dmesg when it was actually /dev/video2.  Weird stuff.  I think maybe the 8 may have been in reference to the minor number of the device itself, which is a minor bug in the logging (heh).
>> 
>> I am able to make recordings off of /dev/video0, the problem is that they're unwatchable.  Both audio and video are choppy which makes sense in light of what I'm seeing in the logs; the connection between the HDPVR and computer keeps going up and down.  Seems like a usb problem to me...
> 
> Could be.  When I first got my HD-PVR two years ago, I had lots of
> problems until I upgraded to a new motherboard.  The USB ports on my
> old Intel 875P chipset motherboard caused problems with the HD-PVR.
> Since then I have been using a P45 chipset motherboard and it has
> worked well.

Think I'll try upgrading my kernel to 2.6.34 and if that doesn't work maybe try putting in a usb card.

thanks,

Steve