On 5/11/05, Michael Carland <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 11, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Sergey Alexandrov wrote:
> Try to turn off VBI in Myth. I had the similar "echo" problem. Do not
> forget to reload ivtv drivers
>
> On 5/11/05, Michael Carland < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Howdy.
>>
>> I'm having a problem, and am still trying to narrow it down, but I
>> thought I'd post the symptoms in case this is a know problem.
>>
>> I'm using a PVR-500 with an AMD64 in 32 bit mode, kernel 2.6.11.7, and
>> MythTV. The PVR-500 is in a master backend, and I am using a separate
>> frontend to watch recordings.
>>
>> With ivtv-0.3.2y, Myth will happily record programs for weeks on its
>> own. However, if I watch a prerecorded program on the frontend
>> (basically just pulling video over NFS), the backend will eventually
>> (roughly three times per half hour) reboot. There are no error
>> messages
>> in messages or syslog.
>>
>> If I move up to ivtv-0.3.4j, I no longer get the reboots. I've
>> recorded
>> two shows at the same time, while watching a different recorded one
>> with the frontend at the same time, for over an hour, with no reboots.
>> However, both live TV, and the recordings made during this time, can
>> get into a horrible echo state, so bad you can not make out most
>> dialog. It appears that the video skips a short bit, and then the echo
>> starts, gets progressively worse, gets progressively better, and then
>> is gone for a short while. Viewing the recordings on two different
>> front ends shows that the echo is in the recording. It is not a simple
>> single echo, like listening to the same audio through two different
>> outputs where one is delayed, this is like yelling on a canyon, with
>> roughly four decreasing echos. But with dialog, it sounds like a real
>> mess.
Wow!
Thanks a million. Not only did that fix the echo problem above, but I
have been delaying switching from my old TiVo to Myth because of video
stuttering problems with live TV, and those went away as well. And I
have spent *way* too much time trying to figure that one out.
-Michael
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