Mailing List Archive: Question about HVR-1600 and stuttering

Question about HVR-1600 and stuttering

Mar 3, 2009, 9:26 PM

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Howdy all,
Continuing my quest to get the HVR-1600 working perfectly....

From the mythtv wiki:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600

Issues and Problems
2. The first analog capture after modprobe experiences dropped frames
and/or no audio. All subsequent analog captures are fine.

What happens if the subsequent captures are just as bad as the initial?

I've tried adding the startup script further down the page, no luck
there. I've also tried outside mythtv. But for some reason tvtime
and xawtv throw errors and "cat /dev/video0" just results in an
empty file.

I didn't want to just litter this email with a bunch of attachments,
what specifics could I provide?

Thanks,

Scott

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Re: Question about HVR-1600 and stuttering [ In reply to ]

bob_ml at stuffofmine

Mar 4, 2009, 5:27 AM

Post #2 of 4 (2444 views)

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Scott Harris wrote:
> Howdy all,
> Continuing my quest to get the HVR-1600 working perfectly....
>
> From the mythtv wiki:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600
>
> Issues and Problems
> 2. The first analog capture after modprobe experiences dropped frames
> and/or no audio. All subsequent analog captures are fine.
>
> What happens if the subsequent captures are just as bad as the initial?
>
> I've tried adding the startup script further down the page, no luck
> there. I've also tried outside mythtv. But for some reason tvtime
> and xawtv throw errors and "cat /dev/video0" just results in an
> empty file.
>
> I didn't want to just litter this email with a bunch of attachments,
> what specifics could I provide?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott

You might want to consider updating the drivers. I just installed the
latest v4l drivers and they do work better.

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain%2C_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers

The picture quality is sill disappointing, but they seem more stable.

Bob

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Re: Question about HVR-1600 and stuttering [ In reply to ]

scott at webhounds

Mar 4, 2009, 10:57 AM

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Bob Wiegand wrote:

>
> You might want to consider updating the drivers. I just installed the
> latest v4l drivers and they do work better.
>
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain%2C_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers
>
>
> The picture quality is sill disappointing, but they seem more stable.
>
> Bob

Thanks! I'm building them now and will test tonight
when I get home.

Scott

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Re: Question about HVR-1600 and stuttering [ In reply to ]

scott at webhounds

Mar 4, 2009, 10:50 PM

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Bob Wiegand wrote:

>
> You might want to consider updating the drivers. I just installed the
> latest v4l drivers and they do work better.
>
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain%2C_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers
>
>
> The picture quality is sill disappointing, but they seem more stable.
>
> Bob

This worked great, thanks! At least so far ;)
No more jitters, even passed the wife test.

As for picture quality, seems much better than the pvr-350 and 150 I
have. But I'm through directv via svideo so I haven't come to expect
much.

Thanks again for the suggestion and link.

Scott

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