Hi I posted this on the ivtv-users list and one of the developers made a suggestion that appears to fix the problem.
The thread is: [ivtv-users] Distortion on top 1/4 of screen PVR-150 >>There aren't many changes that can cause something like this. In fact, I >>can think of only one. Switch to 0.4.1, edit ivtv-streams.c, go to line >>975 and uncomment the lines: >> >>// if (atomic_read(&itv->capturing) == 0) >>// ivtv_vapi(itv, IVTV_API_ENC_MISC, 2, 3, 1); I made the change and testing with mplayer for a few hours the distortion appears to be gone. Ther ghost image I saw before under 0.4.1 also appears to be gone. 0.5.1 has this same code commented out. So I would imagine making the same change would help there also. However mythtv has a new issue with 0.4.1 version of the ivtv driver. When I attempt to watch live tv the screen freezes after a second and eventually mythfrontend times out and complains that it has a problem with the video. 2005-12-18 19:45:40.262 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL 2005-12-18 19:45:40.479 prebuffering pause 2005-12-18 19:45:59.733 ReadStringList timeout (quick). Remote encoder not responding. 2005-12-18 19:45:59.733 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-12-18 19:45:59.733 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-12-18 19:45:59.734 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-12-18 19:45:59.734 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373) This is slightly different then the timeout I saw with the new firmware. So I will probably go back to 0.3.8 Alan Anderson _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
