The issue with the broken frames is due exclusively to the way I'm using mplayer. I hadn't even noticed that the digital side is plagued by the same issue. I followed Mike's suggestion of capturing the file (cat /dev/video1 > tmp.mpg in my case) and captured over 1 hour's worth of video. The driver is working perfectly with the latest ArchLinux kernel.
I want to thank this list for the help and particularly Mike for his work on the driver and the documentation. I had been struggling with this device for over a week and I thought I had read everything I could about the 1950 (obviously I hadn't). This list solved my problems in less than 24 hours. Thanks again Yusik and Mike! Lars On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Mike Isely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
