Al McIntosh wrote:

>>I missed the start of this thread, but how do you know that this problem
>>is the cause of ivtv?
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>>Even if you have analog cable, your upstream provider is going to be using
>>digital.  They could be having random problems with their incoming
>>single, which then gets sent to you via analog as a bad field.
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>The issue only appears when encoding at a resolution other than 720x480. 
>If I encode at 720x480 everything is fine.
>If I encode at 704x480, 640x480, 480x480 I see these odd frames 
>consistently.
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I should also mention the issue suddenly appeared when I upgraded to 
ivtv 4.0.



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>>As well, if you have a dish  / digital set top box with cable, it could be
>>causing this bad field....
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>Would this bad field only be apparent at resolutions other than 720x480?
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>>Just wondering if any work has been done to eliminate source signal as the
>>cause of this bad image?
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>I have used the same satalite receiver but used different inputs. Right 
>now I am using S-Video.
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>>On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:36:50 -0500
>>Al McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>Bryan Mayland wrote:
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>>>>Bryan Mayland wrote:
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>>>>>Keith C wrote:
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>>>>>>Wow, I finally was able to play back your clip (VLC didn't seem to do
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>>>>>>it and Safari on Mac mangled the file, but mplayer from a firefox 
>>>>>>download worked).  Thats a very strange flash.  I got a screen grab 
>>>>>>of it.  Its a partially shifted (or interlaced) frame that only 
>>>>>>occurs for a single frame.  This needs someone from the dev list to 
>>>>>>look at it, so I'm cross posting it to that list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Here's the screen grab (its a tiff, and its 776 Kb) :
>>>>>>http://allesys.com/images/flash.tiff
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>>>>> Thanks for the tiff, I couldn't play the file either.
>>>>>Zot!  I've got the same issue on a PVR-250, one frame every so often 
>>>>>(anywhere between 10secs and a couple minutes) has as the bottom of 
>>>>>its frame shifted horizontally off *just* like that.  I just assumed 
>>>>>my card was crapping out, since my PVR-150 didn't do it.  Now I'm 
>>>>>going to have to investigate.  Running Kubuntu 5.10 and ivtv 
>>>>>branches/0.4 and lirc-0.7.2.
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>>>>It looks like 0.3.8 works for me too.  I went to r2668 which worked,
>>>>and  then I tried r2700, r2750, r2766, and then r2781.  All those
>>>>worked,  which didn't make much sense.  So I shut down and pulled the
>>>>power cord  and let the machine sit a few minutes and tried again.
>>>>
>>>>Now r2781 showed the error again.  Rolled back to r2754, no error.  
>>>>Forward again to r2781, no error.  Shutdown, wait, reboot with r2781, 
>>>>got errors again. 
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>>>>This time I rolled back to r2766, no error again.  Forward to r2781, 
>>>>still no error.  Shutdown again!  Error came back when the machine came
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>>>>back up (r2781).
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>>>>Now it was getting late so I decided to make sure my unload/reload 
>>>>process wasn't the thing fixing the frame errors.  Cold booted with 
>>>>r2781, and haven't seen an error in 10 minutes :/  I wish it was more 
>>>>consistent about failing.  I'll try more tomorrow.
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>>>Bryan,
>>>     When you switched between revisions did you change firmware also?
>>>What firmware version did you use as you cycled through ivtv revisions?
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>>>I ran mplayer -vo jpeg so it would output each frame to a single jpg.
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>>>Frame 44 is fine, 45 is mangled, frame 46 is fine.
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>>>http://allanmcintosh.com/pics/tmp/00000044.jpg 
>>>http://allanmcintosh.com/pics/tmp/00000045.jpg
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>>>Then several hudred frames later I'll see 1 bad frame again.
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>>>The recording these frames are harvested from was created with 0.4.2  
>>>rev 3119
>>>at 640x480.
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