I have a PVR 150 and a PVR 350 in the same machine. Both cards are working but after some time they produce buggy videos. I can see some artefacts and occasionally some previous frames that were skipped before. At this point it takes at maximum 10 minutes and the driver/ card crashes. The errors are the following:
When playing the files I see this messages: ... [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]ac-tex damaged at 44 4 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]end mismatch left=14 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]invalid cbp at 1 34 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]invalid cbp at 38 35 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]ac-tex damaged at 38 29 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]end mismatch left=99 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]ac-tex damaged at 33 6 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]mb incr damaged [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]slice mismatch [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]ac-tex damaged at 34 35 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]ac-tex damaged at 38 35 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]00 motion_type at 38 35 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]skipped MB in I frame at 33 35 [mpeg2video @ 0x2aaaabf43d70]invalid mb type in P Frame at 34 28 ... After the crash mythtv reports this: Seek timeout: ivtv driver has stopped responding All later recordings in Myth have a size of 0 Bytes cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg also produces 0Byte files. Same with /dev/ video1 ivtv-tune doesn't throw any errors but also doesn't says "Signal detected" as usually. After a reboot both cards work again. Sometimes for a half an hour and sometimes for about 2 days. I tried every 0.4.x version of ivtv. I can't try 0.6.x or 0.7.x because of the lack of dmraid support in the new kernels. The best results I get with 0.4.0-r3 and 0.4.4. With this two versions the average uptime is about 1 day. All other versions work just for about 5 minutes. I also tried different firmwares. The one thats actually in the gentoo portage and the newest one downloaded from ivtvdriver.org. I don't know the version numbers. I had both cards working before in another PC with kernel 2.6.14 and ivtv 0.4.0-r3. Now its an ASUS A8V mainboard with an amd64 architecture with kernel 2.6.14. I have searched a lot for this error but I couldn't find any solution for this specific problem. Any suggestions what I could try next? I really don't know what to do and I NEED my MythTV. Please help me!!! _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
