On 1/26/07, Martin van Es <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently upgraded my pvr-150 to a pvr-500 and am seeing > occasional (+/- 5 minutes) mpg artefacts (glitches) in the > recorded/shown mpg stream (mythtv). I started out with kernel 2.6.16 / > ivtv 0.6.6, but it turned out the new Samsung tuner wasn't recognized > so I upgraded to 2.6.19 / ivtv 0.9.1. This works fine (I can watch TV > now) except for the fact that I now have the forementioned occasional > glitches/artefacts in the lower part of my screen. > > Things I tried so far to resolve this: > 1. Read the archives of this mailinglist (both dev/users). I could > find only one reference to glitches and they were in the output of > pvr-350. > 2. change latencies on both pvr-500 pci device ids (40 to 80) > 3. compile and use ivtv-svn (see dmesg output). > 4. mythtv asyncdb.patch, which didn't succesfully compile. > 5. use most recent pvr-500 firmware
Please us the recommended firmware from [1]. > 6. switch off aggressive and extra audiobuffering > 7. tried changing interrupts of the ivtv devices to prevent interrupt > sharing, but couldn't find a way to do this. > > I also tried to set different (ivtv) debug levels to see if I could > discriminate certain messages after the error, but the dmesg output > was either too abundant (irq, dma, ioctl) or didn't show anything > after a glitch (warn, info etc). > > I am able to reproduce the problem using 'cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg' > so mythtv is out of the equasion. > > My questions to the audience are: > 1. Is there anything I missed worth trying, or do people know how to > do things I couldn't? (rearrange interrupts eg) > 2. Is my pvr-500 broken? > > I'll attach a pic to illustrate the problem. After using the recommended firmware can you check your kernel log when the glitches occur? Hopefully it will give some more info as to what is going on. Greets Sander [1] http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/firmware.tar.gz PS: The user list is a better place to ask for support. > > > Grtz. > Martin van Es > > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== > ivtv: version 0.9.2 (development revision 3716) loading > ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.19 mod_unload CYRIXIII REGPARM > ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between > ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with > ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 12 (level, > low) -> IRQ 12 > ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) > tuner 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > tda9887 1-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner) > tuner 1-0060: TEA5767 detected. > tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > tuner 1-0060: type set to 62 (Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio) > tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > cx25840 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes) > wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 23559, rev D596, serial# 9822801 > tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is Samsung TCPG 6121P30A (idx 96, type 73) > tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K) > (eeprom 0x74) > tveeprom 1-0050: second tuner model is Philips TEA5768HL FM Radio (idx > 101, type 62) > tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37) > tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30) > tveeprom 1-0050: has radio, has no IR remote > ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1) > ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039 > ivtv0 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011, > 0x02040024 or 0x02050032. > ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG > ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV > ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI > ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio > ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio > tuner 1-0061: type set to 73 (Samsung TCPG 6121P30A) > ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1), card #0 > ivtv: ====================== NEXT CARD ====================== > ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, > low) -> IRQ 10 > ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) > tuner 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > tda9887 2-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner) > tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > cx25840 2-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes) > wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 23559, rev D596, serial# 9822801 > tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is Samsung TCPG 6121P30A (idx 96, type 73) > tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K) > (eeprom 0x74) > tveeprom 2-0050: second tuner model is Philips TEA5768HL FM Radio (idx > 101, type 62) > tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37) > tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30) > tveeprom 2-0050: has radio, has no IR remote > ivtv1: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second unit > ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2) > ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02060039 > ivtv1 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011, > 0x02040024 or 0x02050032. > ivtv1: Registered device video1 for encoder MPEG > ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV > ivtv1: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI > ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM audio > tuner 2-0061: type set to 73 (Samsung TCPG 6121P30A) > ivtv1: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2), card #1 > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > > lspci: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] > 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 80) > 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 80) > 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 80) > 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge > 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) > 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) > 00:14.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge > (non-transparent mode) (rev 11) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 > [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03) > 02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 > (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > 02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 > (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > > /proc/interrupts > CPU0 > 0: 87569287 XT-PIC-XT timer > 1: 2 XT-PIC-XT i8042 > 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade > 8: 1 XT-PIC-XT rtc > 9: 0 XT-PIC-XT acpi > 10: 1792940 XT-PIC-XT ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb4, VIA8233, > ivtv1 > 11: 7889976 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb2, eth0, [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:0000:01:00.0 > 12: 427243 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb3, ivtv0 > 14: 554557 XT-PIC-XT ide0 > 15: 52 XT-PIC-XT ide1 > NMI: 0 > ERR: 0 > > /proc/dma > 4: cascade _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
