[mythtv-users] PVR350 problems with Myth 0.25.2

Larry Roberts mythtv at american-hero.com
Fri Nov 23 00:59:37 UTC 2012


On 11/21/2012 12:14 PM, George Mari wrote:
> On 10/06/2012 10:07 AM, George Mari wrote:
>> On 10/05/2012 09:25 AM, Michael Harnden wrote:
>>> Quoting George Mari <george_mythusers at mari1938.org>:
>>>
>>>> On 09/24/2012 03:29 AM, Neil Bird wrote:
>>>>> Around about 23/09/12 19:39, George Mari typed ...
>>>>>
>>>>>> One thing that still remains from before, however, is image ghosting
>>>>>> - I
>>>>>> am still getting 2 faint ghost images to the right of the main image
>>>>>> being shown on the screen.  If you're old enough to remember, it's
>>>>>> just
>>>>>> like what we used to see in analog television.  It's actually 
>>>>>> fainter
>>>>>> than that, so it's not unwatchable, but you do notice after a minute
>>>>>> or so.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Hmm, I've been seeing that as well as the flashing (don't recall 
>>>>> both
>>>>> at the same time, but I stop watching immediately on the 
>>>>> flashing).  My
>>>>> ghosting, when it happens, is pretty bad, sometimes enough to bin the
>>>>> recording and try to catch a repeat.
>>>>>
>>>>>   I'll have to have a look at the ventilation, as (as I've said
>>>>> elsewhere in the thread) I'm still on older ivtv drivers 
>>>>> (CentOS-5) and
>>>>> Myth 0.24-fixes.
>>>>>
>>>> OK I've finally gotten around to replacing the bad capacitors on my
>>>> PVR-350.
>>>>
>>>> After about 24 hours, the good news is that the ghosting and flashing
>>>> seem to be gone.  I'm still keeping it well ventilated for a while
>>>> longer, just to be sure.
>>>>
>>>> The bad news is that the ivtv driver just decided to unload/re-load
>>>> itself again.
>>>>
>>>> So I guess I am back in the camp of suffering from the same problem as
>>>> some others seem to be.  I don't know if it's a combination of this
>>>> kernel, and Fedora release (17) or what, but it's no fun having to
>>>> baby-sit the backend and re-load the driver when it dies.
>>>>
>>>> I'll see if I can find the address for the ivtv mailing list and ask
>>>> there, since my problem seems to have shifted there.
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>>>
>>> A patch has been posted in this ticket;
>>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10732#comment:33
>>> Going to try to find some time this weekend to test.
>>> Mike
>>>
>>
>> That looks promising - thanks!
>>
>
> BTW, I applied this patch to my system running 25.2 from RPMFusion - 
> it seems to work perfectly, restoring my system's reliability. No 
> recording failures on my PVR-350 since I applied it on November 11th.
>
> I added a comment to the ticket with more details.
>
>
George,

Thanks for the update.  I have been considering making the leap to .26 
just because of this bug.  As someone who has never built mythtv , how 
hard is that to accomplish? Is it possible to do a build of just that 
file and replace the file that is part of the atrpms package? For that 
matter could I take a version from someone elses system running the same 
kernel and just replace with that?


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