Simon Koch wrote:

> On 2/7/06, *Simon Koch* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 2/5/06, *Simon Koch* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>         On 12/4/05, *Hans Verkuil* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>             On Sunday 04 December 2005 05:17, Simon Koch wrote:
>> On 12/2/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>             <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>> > Keith C wrote:
>> > > Wow, I finally was able to play back your clip (VLC
>             didn't seem
>> > > to do 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
>> >
>> >     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 .
>> >
>>
>> I'm also having this problem on a PVR-250.  However, I
>             find that I
>> only get it with 0.4.0.  The version I used before 0.4.0
>             was 0.3.7c,
>> and I don't see this with 0.3.7c and firmware 0x02040011 or
>> 0x02040024.  I see it on 0.4.0with both of those
>             firmwares and with
>> 0x02050032.  I'm using the S-Video in
>> on my 250.  The PVR-500 in the same system using its
>             tuners does not
>> exhibit this problem.  I always record at 640x480.
>>
>>      Simon
>
>             As is usual in these cases: try to determine the exact
>             version where you
>             see this for the first time. Then I can see what changed
>             and possibly
>             broke something.
>
>                     Hans
>
>
>         I finally tracked down the change that caused this: #2704, in
>         ivtv-streams.c.  When I back out that change, the flashes go
>         away but the ghosting that change fixed is back.  Hopefully,
>         both problems can be fixed, but that's beyond my expertise. 
>         If we're stuck with one or the other, I vote for the
>         ghosting.  It's much less noticable than the flashes.
>
>              Simon
>
>
>     No, I take that back.  The flashes are back again today.  Odd that
>     none appeared when I watched video after changing the driver. 
>     Maybe they don't happen right after loading the driver?  I'll
>     study it some more.
>
>          Simon
>
>
> Ok, this time I think I've really got it.  About a week ago, I undid 
> the change from revision 2690.  I haven't seen any of the flashes 
> since.  I haven't noticed any jitter like the commit message says, but 
> I'm not really sure what I should be looking for.
>
> Here's my 250's portion of the ivtv init messages, in the hopes that 
> it will help identify a way to discern which cards need ivtv_vapi(itv, 
> 0xdc, 2, 3, 1) and which need ivtv_vapi(itv, 0xdc, 2, 3, 0):


Just to add, I see the following behaviour my 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 kernel:

NO FLASHES -> Firmware 0x02040024, ivtv 4.3, Capture resolution 640x480
FLASHES -> Firmware 0x02050032, ivtv 4.3, Capture resolution 640x480

I was going to roll back the changes in my ivtv-4.3 source but quite a 
bit of change since 2690.


http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/trunk/driver/ivtv-streams.c?rev=2690&r1=2657&r2=2690


I am about to compile and test and will get back to you. While it 
compiles I will change my capture resolution to something lower than 
720x480 and see what happens. Once the flashes apper



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