On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:18 +0100, Martin Dauskardt wrote: > > looks bad on S-Video 1: grainy and desaturated color. > > but good on Composite 1. > > > > I'm using: > > * kernel 2.6.26-ARCH i686 (old because the Arch-based LinHES R6 uses > > only that kernel) > > * PVR-350 > > * recommended firmware from ivtvdriver.org > > * S-video 1 output or Composite 1 output > > > > This identical hardware (including cables, tv, etc) gave me a nice > > picture recently, so I don't think it is hardware related. > > >saa7127 2-0044: saa7129 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > > There was for a short period a problem with S-Video and saa7129, which was > present in the first 2.6.28 kernel. Maybe your arch kernel has a v4l-dvb > snapshot from that time which includes this problem > > Older driver versions showed a green screen when loading ivtv. This was > because the saa712x was activated before the MPEG decoder had been > initialized. > I fixed this with this patch: > http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/e95d50985dde > > Unfortunately it had a side effect for saa7129 chips which would explain your > problem. This was fixed with this patch: > http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/4c1561cccc22
Thanks Martin. I didn't remember these. Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
