Try changing the code in videoout_ivtv.cpp to do PREP_FRAME instead of
BLT_FILL in ClearOSD.c.
Or alternatively apply my patch sent to myth-dev mailing list about 4 weeks
ago that was to fix this and other problems.

I'll chase up what has happened to that patch later tonight,

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louie Ilievski
> Sent: 20 April 2005 23:58
> To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3f patches and fixes
> 
> > I question this as well.  I'm getting the locks on ff/rew/commercial
> > skip too.  I changed a few things at once, so I'm not 100% sure if it
> > started with the change from mythtv 0.16 to 0.17 or the addition of
> > the PVR-500 to the box...  I know it all worked flawlessly with 0.16
> > and only 0.2.0rc3 and only a PVR-350 installed...  Will try to make
> > the time to revert back to this system and change only 1 thing at a
> > time to ascertain what is breaking it.
> 
> I've upgraded usually just one or the other and I can tell you that from
> my
> experience at least, the freezing was introduced with the ivtv drivers
> that
> made a big change in the DMA code.  I know if I drop back to 0.3.2h right
> now, it will work just fine, because it did only a few days ago before I
> got
> the newest verisons to load properly with my setup (but, I'll lose the
> nice
> functionality of my pvr150...sound gets messed up sometimes with 0.3.2h
> ...
> it's a lose-lose situation at this point).  So, while it's easy to blame
> ivtv, I'm not going to be quick and jump to this conclusion for the
> reasons I
> stated in my previous email.  I still think there's something going on
> with
> the MythTV code as well.  This reminds me, actually, of two other problems
> I
> have with playback, which I don't think are ivtv related:
> 
> 1)  Although I haven't played with this much to give a perfect
> description,
> I'll try from what I remember:  While in Live TV, when rewinding in 3x,
> after
> resuming playback, the video will rewind at super speeds and go to a point
> far from where you intended to playback.  I'm not sure if this is after
> FFWing a bit or what, but it definitely does not do what I'm expecting it
> to
> do
> 
> 2) When FFWing in 3x mode, the timestamp does not also speed up to 3x.  It
> just counts in 1 second intervals as if it was playing back normally from
> the
> first place.  This could very well be the cause of problem #1, where the
> time
> positions are off so when rewinding at 3x, it's catching up to the real
> position it should have been at (note that when rewinding at 3x the
> timestamp
> moves at the correct, 3x rate).
> 
> Anyway, just something to consider.  At this point I'm not sure who's the
> culprit.  I may dive into the ivtv playback code in myth if I can find
> some
> time and see if I can spot anything unusual.  I wish there was some
> documentation to help me out, but at least the code is extremely clean
> (browsed through it last night), so I might have a chance  :-)
> 
> ~Lou



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