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 > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
