On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Lars Maersk wrote: > Thank you, Yusik!! > > Upgrading the kernel solved the problem on the digital side. I still have > the issue on the analog side. (Can't play more than 5 mins without frames > starting to break).
Yes, for the digital tuning problem you likely got bit by the recent instability there in v4l-dvb. For the analog side, well that's interesting. I normally don't use mplayer in that manner but now that you've pointed it out I'll play around with it and see what happens. It would good to verify this and add it as a documented means to use the driver. Generally for just testing the driver I run mplayer in its "dumb" mode and use the driver's sysfs interface to tune it. That method is known to work well. Another known good method which works entirely inside of a single app is to use xawtv. And of course there's mythtv, but that isn't really a very good choice if one is just trying to verify the hardware or the driver. Another thing you can do is this: 1. Use sysfs to tune the card to a known good analog frequency 2. cat /dev/video0 >/tmp/foo.mpg 3. Use your favorite media player to play back /tmp/foo.mpg That approach has the advantage of reproducibility and it separates issues involving the media player with issues involving the pvrusb2 driver. Obviously this is not something you'd want to routinely do but it's a good tool to help diagnose problems. Have you looked at the usage web page for the driver? Try here: http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/usage.html -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
