[mythtv-users] HVR-2250 blue recordings

[Neil Cooper]

--- On Mon, 9/19/11, Timothy Krantz <tkrantz at stahurabrenner.com> wrote:

> From: Timothy Krantz <tkrantz at stahurabrenner.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HVR-2250 blue recordings
> To: "'Discussion about MythTV'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Monday, September 19, 2011, 2:17 PM
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Hi,
> > 
> > my backend is running 0.24.1 and has a single HVR-2250
> tuner 
> > card. Sometimes I get recordings that have a blue
> screen 
> > only. I'm guessing because it was scheduled on the
> card's 2nd 
> > tuner hardware but I haven't proved it.
> > 
> > It seems that somehow (only) the card's 2nd tuner
> hardware 
> > isn't being initialized properly on opening.
> > 
> > I have 2 input groups set up (1 analog and 1 digital
> input on 
> > each group). Both digital tuners are setup to open on
> demand, 
> > and to not do EIT scanning. Tuner timeouts are the
> default values.
> > 
> > I guessed that the analog and digital inputs both
> listed as 
> > number 0 are shared hardware and the two tuners listed
> as 
> > number 1 are shared hardware. Is this (necessarily)
> true? 
> > (Could it be e.g. 0 and 1 are shared hardware, and 1
> and 0 
> > the other shared hardware?)
> > 
> > 
> > I also found that in 'watch live tv' analog input 0
> and 
> > digital input 0 seem always OK, yet digital input 1
> can't 
> > tune and gives me a blue picture until I switch to
> analog 1, 
> > tune it to a differnet analog channel, then switch
> back to 
> > digital 1. It can then tune the channel it couldn't
> before.
> > 
> > Has anyone else with an HVR-2250 had this
> experience?  Is 
> > this a known mythtv bug? I don't think its a hardware
> issue 
> > as I can get all the tuners working fine outside of
> mythtv.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks guys,
> > Neil Cooper.
> 
> I have *exactly* the same behaviour. I don't know how to
> fix it.
> 
> What kernel are you running?
> 
> Sorry for being a "me too" but he asked.
> 
> Tim 
> 

Ubuntu 11.04 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64