Hi! Sorry for asking here, but I have the problem that my Freevo/ivtv living room system is not suitable anymore for normal daily use. (Since I became father very recently, my time is rather limited ATM, and I already spent a fair amount on this stupid problem. My wife is angry since she cannot follow her favorite series anymore and I cannot live with the fact that I am not even in control of our computers.)
Actually, I have lots of problems with ivtv, let's list them chronologically: 1.) Often, a TV program is broadcasted with a second channel for blind people, narrating what happens on screen. Such recordings are recorded here with both channels mixed into each other - I was told* that this was because of my "options msp3400 once=1" module option, but removing that did not help and I still have that problem. However, this only affects special programs, so it is not as grave as the following problems. * http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2006-August/003943.html 2.) For around ten weeks, we have been having bad artifacts in our recordings, similar to DVB-T errors during bad wheather for example. I mean every some minutes (sometimes even seconds) there are visible blocky structures in some frames. I cannot remember when or why this appeared first (possibly after installing ivtv-0.4.2), but I think this was the original reason why I fiddled around with the system, which led to the following problems.. First I checked that this was no Freevo problem by recording (/playing) directly from /dev/video0, which also showed the problem so I decided to upgrade ivtv. 3.) With ivtv-0.4.10 (still Linux-2.6.15.2, as above) and a recent Freevo-1.7 (yes, unfortunately I updated Freevo at the same time, which makes it hard to nail down the cause of any problems), I now have the problem that scheduled recordings end prematurely. That is - a program with 90 minutes might end after 34 or only 11 minutes. Freevo shuts down (using the autoshutdown plugin) after the correct time, i.e. it "waits" the rest of the time without the recorded file growing any more. I successfully tried manual recordings from /dev/video0, but the problem is hard to reproduce, since sometimes a full recording from Freevo is OK, too, so I still think it is an ivtv problem. 4.) In parallel, I tried Linux-2.6.20.1 (I have the same kernel running successfully on several other computers) with ivtv-0.10.1. Here, the recordings are not fluent, but every half a second to second, the video stops which makes all movements appear jerky. The audio is fine though. I planned to post more information by analyzing the stream, but my wife deleted all recordings and the system is currently booted into the older kernel. I wonder which kernel/ivtv combos you are using and whether any one of you has (had) similar problems. Or is it just that I have bad luck, or that the evil devil decided to steal my last minutes of "spare" time I have? Nice greetings, a tired, disappointed Hans
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