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Re: mythtv pvr-150



 In most cases, problems associated with the stream of video coming from your 
card are associated with the IVTV firmware you use. See if you can find an 
associated bug, or just see if you can upgrade the firmware package itself, 
which is installed to your computer. To do a simple test of the card itself, 
shut down all MythTV software and run: 

# mplayer /dev/video (or whatever device name your current card's input is) 

See if you notice the same thing when playing a direct stream from mplayer 
(try VLC too). You should even be able to control the card's tuner to tune 
to a good channel to test on (forget the name of the CLI application to do 
this). All in all, I had quite a few issues on Ubuntu that went away when I 
updated my ivtv-firmware package. 

On Nov 19, 2007 3:22 PM, Boland, John <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> folks, 
> 
> i've been using mythdora for several months now with a great deal of 
> success. 
> this weekend i changed out the capture card for a hauppauge pvr-150. 
> the card works well, i can find most of the analog channels on my rcn 
> cable.  i can play earlier records without problem.  however, with the 
> new capture card, live tv plays faster than normal (everybody sounds 
> like they're alvin or one of the chipmunks, really funny listening to 
> john madden do football that way), then halts for a second and picks up 
> again at exactly the correct point, with the chipmunk voices.  the same 
> goes for the video, it plays slightly faster, halts for a second and 
> then continues. 
> 
> the only change has been the capture card. the old card played correctly 
> (sound and video), old recordings made with the old card play correctly. 
> 
> how can i adjust the capture speed? 
> 
> all of the googling i get points to video problems.  however, i don't 
> think that is the case. it worked with the old card (hauppauge win-tv 
> theater), live and playback. 
> 
> btw, 
> can't wait to hear jarrod talk about mythtv again! 
> 
> 
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