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On 09/23/2012 08:24 AM, Dave Pearson wrote:
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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left:
5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br>
<strong>From:</strong> George Mari
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:george_mythusers@mari1938.org"><george_mythusers@mari1938.org></a><br>
<strong>Sent:</strong> Sat 22-09-2012 19:57<br>
<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 problems
with Myth 0.25.2<br>
<strong>To:</strong> Discussion about MythTV
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"><mythtv-users@mythtv.org></a>; <br>
On 09/21/2012 08:23 AM, Ken Mink wrote:<br>
> On 9/12/12 9:59 AM, Tim Scholl wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Neil Bird
<<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:neil@fnxweb.com">neil@fnxweb.com</a><br>
>> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:neil@fnxweb.com"><mailto:neil@fnxweb.com></a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Around about 12/09/12 09:56, Dave Pearson typed ...<br>
>><br>
>> This won't be any help to you, but I am
experiencing similar<br>
>> problems with<br>
>> my PVR250's (I've got one in my MBE and one in
my SBE). I<br>
>> sometimes get a<br>
>> flashing stripe about 20% of the height of the
screen at the top<br>
>> - it's as<br>
>> if it's being torn from the image (if that
makes any sense).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> OK, time for an AOL moment: me too.<br>
>><br>
>> Except, I have 0.24.x still (with my PVR-350),
and I only ever<br>
>> use it (the card) for s-video in: it's not
configured for TV (and<br>
>> wouldn't work now, anyway, as all our analogue
channels have been<br>
>> turned off).<br>
>><br>
>> Maybe once a month I get a stuffed recording
like that (my<br>
>> flashing strip *seems* to be a distorted checker
board pattern), and<br>
>> the problem lasts for the whole recording. I've
never noticed it<br>
>> run into another (back-to-back) recording, but that
situation may<br>
>> not have ever occurred.<br>
>><br>
>> I had initially thought it was my satellite box,
but I've come to<br>
>> believe it's my card (or, at least, PVR-based), and
had just thought<br>
>> it was starting to go (so I'm going to get a new
s-video card for<br>
>> the new box I'm building up).<br>
>><br>
>> It hasn't always done it, but I couldn't say it
started after a<br>
>> Myth update though.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I'd save your money and hold off on buying a new card.
The symptoms I<br>
>> is see is either the flashing bar, or the same
"(flashing strip that<br>
>> *seems* to be a distorted checker board pattern)" that
your seeing.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Tim Scholl<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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> I am seeing the same problems with my PVR-500. I also have
a HVR-2250 in<br>
> the same box. It uses the ivtv driver and does not have the
problem. The<br>
> issues started with the upgrade to 0.25. I'm currently
running<br>
><br>
> MythTV Version : v0.25.2-21-g099533d<br>
> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.25<br>
> Network Protocol : 72<br>
> Library API : 0.25.20120506-1<br>
> QT Version : 4.7.2<br>
> Options compiled in:<br>
> linux release use_hidesyms using_alsa using_jack
using_oss using_pulse<br>
> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl<br>
> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_crystalhd
using_dvb<br>
> using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_ceton
using_hdpvr<br>
> using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libcrypto<br>
> using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc
using_mheg<br>
> using_opengl_video using_qtwebkit using_qtscript
using_qtdbus using_v4l2<br>
> using_v4l1 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
using_bindings_perl<br>
> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php
using_mythtranscode<br>
> using_opengl using_vaapi using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads
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I just saw the same thing this morning on my PVR-350. I'm
running <br>
Fedora 17, kernel 3.5.3-1, MythTV 25.2-1 from RPMFusion.<br>
<br>
I somewhat suspect it's a leaky/bulging capacitor I found on my
PVR-350 <br>
today, however. The card is 7 years old, after all.<br>
<br>
On the other hand, other flaky behavior with the ivtv driver
re-loading <br>
itself and causing the myth backend to no longer use that tuner
do <br>
coincide with my upgrade at the beginning of the month for
Fedora 17.<br>
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<p>I don't think it's a hardware fault as I have this problem on 2
PVR250's in 2 separate systems. I suspect it's an IVTV driver
problem as I finally got around to trying the card outside of
mythtv (using mplayer /dev/video0 -) this morning and the same
thing was happening, I quit out of mplayer and ran the command
again and the picture was OK. I'm not a member of the IVTV
mailing list, but it might be worth taking a look there to see
if it's been reported.</p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Dave<br>
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I am having issues with the PVR-500 (3 of them with identical
symptoms actually) that include a distorted picture and the <font
color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font color="black"
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">"Error opening jump program file
buffer" problem. Could all of those in this thread please check
to see if there is a coinciding entry in their syslog like <br>
<br>
ivtv0: Encoder has died : ivtv_serialized_open <br>
ivtv0: Detected in ivtv_serialized_open that firmware had failed
- Reloading <br>
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