Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-16 Thread Corey Taylor
Hi, I just recently bought a Hauppauge Win TV HVR-1600 card and am using it with MythTV running on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 64-bit edition. My hardware is an Asus A8N VM-CSM Motherboard with an Athlon 64 single core CPU. I'm using the cx18 driver compiled from Mercurial (as of last weekend) and do

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-28 Thread Andy Walls
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 06:52 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: > > Andy, > > > I am noticing an improvement in pixelation by setting the bufsize to > > 64k. I will monitor over the next week and report back. I am running 3 > > HVR-1600s and the IRQs are coming up shared with the USB which also > > support

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-29 Thread Trent Piepho
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Andy Walls wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 06:52 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: > I found a race condition between the cx driver and the CX23418 firmware. > I have a patch that mitigates the problem here: > > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/cx18/rev/9f5f44e0ce6c > [ We have to do thi

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-29 Thread Brandon Jenkins
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 06:52 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: >> > Andy, >> >> > I am noticing an improvement in pixelation by setting the bufsize to >> > 64k. I will monitor over the next week and report back. I am running 3 >> > HVR-1600s and the IR

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-29 Thread Andy Walls
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 01:24 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Andy Walls wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 06:52 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: > > I found a race condition between the cx driver and the CX23418 firmware. > > I have a patch that mitigates the problem here: > > > > http://

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-30 Thread Trent Piepho
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Andy Walls wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 01:24 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote: > > wait_event() should take care of this. wait_event(q, test) basically does: > > > > for(;;) { > > // point A > > add_me_to_waitqueue(q); > > set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); > >

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-30 Thread Andy Walls
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:54 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Andy Walls wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 01:24 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote: > > > wait_event() should take care of this. wait_event(q, test) basically > > > does: > > > > > > for(;;) { > > > // point A > > > add_me

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-31 Thread Brandon Jenkins
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Brandon Jenkins wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Andy Walls wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 06:52 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: >>> > Andy, >>> >>> > I am noticing an improvement in pixelation by setting the bufsize to >>> > 64k. I will monitor over the ne

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-31 Thread Andy Walls
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 06:02 -0400, Brandon Jenkins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Brandon Jenkins > wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > >> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 06:52 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: > >> > > Hi Andy, > > > > I have cloned this tree and loaded

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-04-13 Thread Andy Walls
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 06:02 -0400, Brandon Jenkins wrote: > >> > >> Corey and Brandon, > >> > >> I found a race condition between the cx driver and the CX23418 firmware. > >> I have a patch that mitigates the problem here: > >> > >> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/cx18/rev/9f5f44e0ce6c > >> > >> I th

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-04-24 Thread Brandon Jenkins
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 06:02 -0400, Brandon Jenkins wrote: >> >> >> >> Corey and Brandon, >> >> >> >> I found a race condition between the cx driver and the CX23418 firmware. >> >> I have a patch that mitigates the problem here: >> >> >> >> http

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-04-24 Thread Andy Walls
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 08:28 -0400, Brandon Jenkins wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 06:02 -0400, Brandon Jenkins wrote: > > Brandon and Corey, > > > > I have a series of changes to improve performance of the cx18 driver in > > delivering incom

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-16 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Corey Taylor wrote: > > Hi, I just recently bought a Hauppauge Win TV HVR-1600 card and am using it > with MythTV running on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 64-bit edition. > > My hardware is an Asus A8N VM-CSM Motherboard with an Athlon 64 single core > CPU. > > I'm using

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-16 Thread Corey Taylor
>Corey, > >As far as I know, with ATSC/QAM you typically won't see the same sort >of "tearing" artifacts with a digital source, as those sorts of >distortions are usually a product of analog transmission. When you >encounter these issues with digital sources, it's usually some product >of the vid

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-16 Thread Andy Walls
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 15:53 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: > >Corey, > > > >As far as I know, with ATSC/QAM you typically won't see the same sort > >of "tearing" artifacts with a digital source, as those sorts of > >distortions are usually a product of analog transmission. When you > >encounter these

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-16 Thread hermann pitton
Hi, Am Montag, den 16.03.2009, 20:57 -0400 schrieb Andy Walls: > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 15:53 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: > > >Corey, > > > > > >As far as I know, with ATSC/QAM you typically won't see the same sort > > >of "tearing" artifacts with a digital source, as those sorts of > > >distortions

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-17 Thread Corey Taylor
Andy, thanks for writing back. Here's the info you asked for.. > Well, no. It's more likely a system level issue. > 1. Can you provide the output of > $ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0:104 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4:

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-18 Thread Andy Walls
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 18:08 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: > Andy, thanks for writing back. Here's the info you asked for.. > > > Well, no. It's more likely a system level issue. > > > 1. Can you provide the output of > > $ cat /proc/interrupts > >CPU0 > 0:104 IO-AP

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-22 Thread Brandon Jenkins
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > 2.  Try modifying the enc_ts_bufsize module parameter from it's default > of 32 k, down to 4 k or up to 128 k.  With a smaller size, the loss of > any one buffer from the encoder will not have such a devastating effect > on the MPEG TS, but int

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-23 Thread Corey Taylor
> Andy, > I am noticing an improvement in pixelation by setting the bufsize to > 64k. I will monitor over the next week and report back. I am running 3 > HVR-1600s and the IRQs are coming up shared with the USB which also > supports my HD PVR capture device. Monday nights are usually one of > the

Re: Problems with Hauppauge HVR 1600 and cx18 driver

2009-03-23 Thread Andy Walls
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 06:52 -0700, Corey Taylor wrote: > > Andy, > > > I am noticing an improvement in pixelation by setting the bufsize to > > 64k. I will monitor over the next week and report back. I am running 3 > > HVR-1600s and the IRQs are coming up shared with the USB which also > > support