On Tuesday 13 September 2005 19:17, Leonard Orb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after installing an additional dvb-t card in a system with two pvr 250
> that worked absolutely wonderful for months with 0.2.0-rc3f i had to
> upgrade the kernel from 2.4.31 to 2.6.12.6 to get the dvb-t working.
>
> I tried to install 0.2.0-rc3k, but there were probs with the cx88xx
> module, needed for the dvb-t, because of missing symbols in
> tveeprom.ko.
>
> Then i gave a try to 0.3.8, and installation was smooth and worked
> fine, except one problem: Recordings using the pvr 250s show mpeg
> artifacts, sound drop outs and sometimes even the video steps, i.e.
> some tenths of a second simply are missing. This happens not very
> often, about every ten or fifteen minutes i guess. Sometimes it
> happens more frequently and sometimes it does not happen at all for an
> hour or so.
Does dmesg show any ivtv errors when this happens?
> Some background information:
> I tune with ptune.pl and I use ivtvctl to set bitrate, dnr_mode,
> stream_type and such. I then "cat /dev/videoX > <file>". No other
> software does interfere with ivtv, there is only the kernel, ivtv and
> cron.
If you use the defaults for stream_type, bitrate and dnr_mode etc., do the
same problems occur?
> Finally i should mention that i never used any 0.3.x version before,
> because there were no problems with the 0.2.0 versions i have had.
Would you be willing to try to determine when this problem was introduced? It
could be time consuming but it may be the only way to find out where it went
wrong.
Hans
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