On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:39:47 -0500, Kevin Ulmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glad to know I'm not the only one having this problem. I saw the thread > from John Williams about something similar, although his description was > that he was getting static, and in his logs he was having problems with the > eeprom module not loading correctly, which I've looked for and do not have. > I only have one tveeprom module and according to the logs it's loading > correctly. > > It is exactly as Richard describes where I can specify a channel to tune to > and it gets it close enough so that if I'm watching carefully I can kinda > see what the program on is between the flipping and vertical bars, and > indeed it's the channel I specified. I always thought that the frequencies > were a good guess for the card since they might be slightly different for > each person and it was the job of the hardware tuner to take that guess and > get to the closest good frequency, which it apparently isn't doing. Even > manually passing frequencies to it using ptune.pl seems to get the exact > same result unless I pass it a value far enough away from the correct > frequency to get complete static. It's almost as if the tuner is homing in > on the correct frequency plus an offset, so it never gets tuned in > correctly. > > I'm going to try the card in a windows box tonight to see if it is indeed > hardware related, but somehow I'm doubting that since it worked fine before > and all I did was move it between two boxes. > > I'll also take some pictures of it during the move so that we can see if > we're talking about the same card. >
Does it look like this: http://www.bttv-gallery.de/PVR_250_rev_I111_jpg_48055.jpg I had one of those (purchased in Dec. 2003). The audio started to lag behind the video, and the video would have lots of wavy lines, on each side of the picture. I tried the card under Windows in 2 different computers, sadly I had the same results in both. I RMA'd the card, and they sent me a new one. It's smaller with no heatsink on the main chip. It looks like this: http://www.bttv-gallery.de/IMGP1042.JPG_hauppauge_pvr-250_32062_rev.C185_a.jpg Josh ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
