On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Saturday 02 February 2008 15:34:30 David Faure wrote:
> > Sorry for breaking the thread, I just subscribed.
> > A thread on ivtv-users pointed me to this thread here so I'm jumping
> > in :)
> >
> > I too have been experiencing loss of sound during recording with a
> > PVR-350.
> >
> > frank wrote on 31 Aug 2007:
> > > My card (pvr350) has been running fine for over a year (24x7),
> > > until I updated my SuSE with standard updates a few weeks ago. I'm
> > > pretty sure the problem did not exist with kernel 2.6.18.0.1, but
> > > now with 2.6.18.0.5 the sound breaks after 3-15min into recording.
> >
> > I just wanted to add that I don't believe it's kernel-upgrade
> > related. I have the problems with linux 2.6.17-10-386 + ivtv-0.7.1. I
> > am very interested in finding out which other package to upgrade or
> > downgrade to solve this very annoying problem, though :)
> >
> > Has this problem been solved meanwhile?
> >
> > If not, I will definitely watch for v4l2-ctl -C mute when the sound
> > drops to see if it's spontaneous muting or not; anything else I
> > should watch for? (PS: I'm clueless about drivers and other lowlevel
> > stuff but I can write C/C++ code, so if there's any part of the
> > driver code where debug output would give more info, I can hack it
> > in...)
> 
> It's a bit of a fuzzy problem and it is not clear to me whether there is 
> a real driver bug somewhere, or if it is really a hardware issue or 
> something like that.

I think it was a hardware issue after all. Without changing anything in my 
setup,
it hasn't happened anymore for 3 months now. All I did was to be careful about
the temperature of the computer, e.g. not turning it on too long before 
recording time.
I think the machine has air flow issues and overheats, and this must be what 
caused
the sound recording to break in the PVR.

-- 
David Faure, [EMAIL PROTECTED], sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).

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