Just to let everyone know, here's what is currently going on with the driver:
1. I've fixed a problem that caused video scaling problems with 24xxx model devices. Symptoms included stretched / distorted video, loss of color, and vertical "color pinstripes" in the image. 2. I've fixed another problem that caused similar video scaling problems with HVR-1950 devices. 3. I've also tweaked things in regards to #1 and #2 above so that the fix is coherent with the video standard in use - this had never previously been the case. I suspect, but I can't prove, that this might clean up some of the "slop" at the top of the video image (where you might see VBI data). I can't prove this because broadcast TV doesn't exist where I live anymore and I'm not a cable subscriber. (I can still test analog TV however using an RF modulator so don't worry about that.) The stuff above is enough to release another snapshot, however first: 4. I'd like to further investigate the audio dropout problem reported a few weeks ago on 29xxx devices. The problem there is that with a sub-device enabled pvrusb2 driver configuration, the audio goes away when switching from radio to tv mode, only for the older 29xxx devices (those using the msp3400+saa7115 chip combination). I've already done some further digging on this tonight, but it requires more time. The technique I used to smoke out issues #1 and #2 above should work on this problem as well. 5. There are some possible compilation warnings I need to knock out, and there's minor issue with routing scheme handling that I want to clean up. (It's just housekeeping.) 6. I'd also like to get some traction on a reported kernel oops when the PVR2_TRACE_STATE debug flag is on - if only to make sure this isn't a lurking widespread issue. So far I can't seem able to reproduce this problem. (Has anyone else tried the driver in Fedora 11?) 7. Several people have reported these messages: "s5h1411_readreg: readreg error (ret == -5)". Right now I can't reproduce this one either, however I think I know one of the reasons why, which will take a few more days to sort out. I'm out of time tonight to work futher on this. I won't get another chance to pick up on this again until probably Friday night. This week is looking to be a real bear for me. However I'm assuming that since we have an easy workaround for #1 and #2 above (use 720 for the horizontal resolution) that a few more days won't kill anyone here... I'll let you all know of course when there's a new snapshot ready. -Mike p.s. I know several months ago there was a discussion for a means to finally get uncompressed video capture going. I haven't forgotten about it - and I still have all the notes from that. But I'm sorry, I just haven't had a chance yet to make any serious headway on a solid, proper implementation for that. But I am keeping this one in mind. -- Mike Isely isely @ isely (dot) net PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
