Hey,

Have you tried taking off the caps and putting isolation in them?
(For example: 
http://blogs.homelinux.org/2007/01/28/fixing-the-pvr-500-with-samsung-chipset/)

It doesn't help solve all the problems, but it helps just a bit.
Picture quality is far less satisfying than that of the original PVR-500 
before the Samsung models.

Tim.

J. David Maino wrote:
> I'm having problems getting my PVR-500 to work properly. The images are 
> terrible. I've tried testing it using MythTV as well as using "cat 
> /dev/video0 > /tmp/card0.mpg" and "cat /dev/video1 > /tmp/card1.mpg" and 
> they both look horrible either way. I know for a fact I have the version 
> with the Samsung tuner, so part of the problem could be that. The output 
> videos can be found here:
>
> http://www.psuae.org/card0.mpg
> http://www.psuae.org/card1.mpg
>
> The sound seems to work alright, and I can hear what is being said, but 
> it is also a little fuzzy. I'm not very familiar with Linux 
> troubleshooting, but I'm willing to get my hands dirty and would 
> definitely appreciate some ideas as to where to start looking to solve this.
>
> Just for reference, I'm running Ubuntu Edgy (2.6.17 kernel) with MythTV 
> 0.20 and IVTV drivers from the repositories (0.7). My CPU is an x86 AMD 
> 3200+, and I have an old ATI Rage card in there with ATI's proprietary 
> drivers. Any tips on where I might look for error messages, and what 
> specifically I might look for, would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Here is the output from DMESG for the IVTV section: 
> http://psuae.org/dmesg.txt
>
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