My goal with these two questions is to determine what is the most stable hardware for a PVR system.
I would be nice if it is possible to use the 350 because then I wouldn't need to a separate TV-out card. I'm planning to build a barebones system and the newer systems only have one PCI card slot and one 16xPCI-E slot. So: 1) use a 350 for encoding and as the TV driver 2) use a 250, 500, etc for encoding and a graphics card with TV out. From my previous tests the TV out from the 350 has better picture quality than a TV-out from a graphics card. so the first option is my preferred choice, but since it doesn't seem to be 100% reliable I would like to find hardware that is reliable. Can somebody suggest a PCI-E graphics card with good TV-out quality and a IVTV card which doesn't lose the audio stream. TIA Duncan Mike Shields wrote: > I have the same problem with audio disappearing on my pvr-350-only > system. I can get audio back by rebooting or by removing the modules > and reloading them. I've gone so far as to create a script to do it, > because it happens maybe once a week, sometimes it's only once every 2 > weeks. I'm not using the decoder for audio, only for xv video output. > > I haven't really examined logs when it happens, I was more interested > in just getting it working again. I'll try to harvest logs the next > time it occurs - but sometimes I don't notice until I play back > recordings and I notice that all the day's recordings have no sound. > > Mike Shields > > On 6/26/06, John Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can you also determine if it's the same cmd (ie 0x000060). >> Myth has been running here using the ivtv X driver for about 2 months >> without crashing. >> >> John >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Webb >>> Sent: 26 June 2006 14:16 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [ivtv-devel] X-driver crash and audio stream loss >>> >>> Hi List, >>> >>> Does anybody know why the IVTV X-Driver sometimes crashes or >>> why the audio stream disappears? >>> >>> I'm curious if anybody run a system with a PVR-350 all the >>> time everyday, without any problems? >>> >>> In the kernel log I get the following messages after the >>> systems has been running for a while. I'm trying to determine >>> what "a while" means but it is in the order to 2 to 3 days. >>> >>> ivtv0 warning: No Free Mailbox for cmd 0x00000060 after 100 tries! >>> ivtv0 warning: Mailbox[0] 0x00000060 flags 0x00000003 ivtv0 >>> warning: Mailbox[1] 0x00000060 flags 0x00000003 ivtv0 >>> warning: Firmware UNRESPONSIVE when trying cmd 0x00000060!!! >>> ivtv0-osd warning: Need to adjust to width 720 src_w 720 >>> dst_w 720 src_x 0 dst_x 0 ivtv0-osd warning: Need to adjust >>> to height 576 src_h 576 dst_h 576 src_y 0 dst_y 0 ivtv0-osd >>> warning: Source video: Interlaced ivtv0 warning: Enable video output >>> >>> Usually a reboot is needed before because the audio signal >>> has been lost from the mpeg file. When the audio breaks there >>> is nothing reported in the kernel log. >>> >>> Hardware is a Hauppauge PVR-350 >>> Driver: version 0.4.0->0.4.5 >>> Firmware encoder revision: 0x02050032 >>> Firmware decoder revision: 0x02020023 >>> >>> >>> TIA >>> Duncan >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ivtv-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> ivtv-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > > _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
