On Saturday 03 March 2007 23:39, Mike Isely wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rod Smith wrote: > > > > I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-USB2 for use with MythTV. For > > the most part, the device is working fine (and thanks to Mike Isely for > > the driver!); however, ocasionally it runs into a problem. ... > > Thereafter, MythTV records 0-length files, for both the current and > > subsequent recordings; ... > The in-kernel 2.6.20 pvrusb2 driver is fairly old. There have been some > stability fixes since then. Those fixes are already on their way into a > 2.6.20.y kernel release but you might want to try building the > most current standalone driver and see if that helps the situation.
FWIW, I've done just this; I downloaded the 20070227 package and built it a few days ago. Since then, I've had no problems with the device becoming mysteriously unavailable. I have seen one "encoder appears to be stuck" message, but it wasn't accompanied by any other weirdness. -- Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rodsbooks.com Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
