On 11/11/05, Joseph A. Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
MacNean Tyrrell wrote:

> Has anyone else had the issue of problems with ivtv and their system
> being up for awhile.  After a fresh reboot ivtv records shows
> flawlessly, no artifacts or anything.  But if it's up for a while, it
> will start to record artifacts into the recordings.  It's the same
> things, ever few seconds a line in the middle, looks like a bunch of
> blocky squares runs aross the screen in the middle.  Also ever few
> seconds, but not the same time as the line, a big block in the bottom
> right cornor, round in shape but a bunch of big squares grouped
> together.  If i reboot and the recording picks up or something, it
> stops.  But once it starts doing it it does it for all recordings
> until i reboot. Even if i just restart mythbackend and frotnend that
> doesn't take care of the problem.  Anyone have ideas?


Sounds like possibly a heat or a grounding/shielding issue.  Here's how
to tell if it's the driver or the hardware:

- stop mythbackend
- modprobe -r ivtv
- modprobe ivtv
- start mythbackend

If this clears up the problem without a reboot, then it could be a
driver issue.  If not, it's more likely a hardware issue.

It could be that  ticket that ross mentioned.  I sometimes find that it does it to one pvr and not the other and at times both, and when it is one, it's random with one.  I will try what you put up above, but i just added a reboot in crontab every day at 6:00am , cause it seems to start after it's been on for awhile, usually longer than a day.  guess i'll just deal with it, really want a pvr-500 though, if it get's worse might just spring for one.  If it did come to that, i would remov e the reboot part and wait till it happened and try what you suggested.

-JAC
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MacNean C. Tyrrell
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