[pvrusb2] pvrusb2 and Fedora 11 - Audio cut after sometime of capturing

[JE Geiger]

I was using ext3, not ext4 since I had upgraded from F10 to F11.
Good luck.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Alejandro Vaquero <
alejandrovaquero at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks JE. I been dealing with this issue for a couple of weeks now, and
> will go to Fedora 10 if none of the suggestions work. Now that you mention
> that F10 has no problems, I was thinking if the new ext4 filesystem on F11
> has something to do with all these issues.
>
> Thanks
> Alejandro
>
>
> JE Geiger wrote:
>
>> I had several unexplained errors when using pvrusb2 with Fedora 11.
>>
>> Mike Isely assisted me in debugging to the point that it was determined by
>> me (not by Mike, he did not express an opinion) that it was some strange
>> problem with the version of the gcc compiler, udev package or possibly one
>> of the binary library objects with Fedora 11.  Using F11 and AMD or Intel,
>> I
>> could not get the driver to work.  Also, turning on debugging flag bits
>> caused it to crash the kernel requiring a machine reboot.  Mike could not
>> duplicate my problems.
>>
>> After much "try this and then trying that" to no avail, I downgraded to
>> Fedora 10 from Fedora 11 with a complete hard drive reformat.
>>
>> After that, no problems with pvrusb2 or mythtv.  My machine is still at
>> F10
>> for this reason.  I have several other F11 machines that don't use pvrusb2
>> and they are running fine.  I have stopped upgrading from F10 to F11 for a
>> period of time while any compiler issues are shaken out over time.
>>
>> Will be happy to answer detailed questions off list.  YMMV.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Alejandro Vaquero <
>> alejandrovaquero at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>  This is my first post, and want to thank for your great job on this
>>> driver.
>>>
>>>  I've been using two pvrusb2 for a couple of years now with Mythtv. I
>>> recently reinstalled my Mythtv backend with Fedora 11 (from Fedeora 6)
>>> and
>>> started experiencing this audio issue. I can capture video and audio, but
>>> after sometime (it maybe be seconds or minutes) the audio stops
>>> recording.
>>>  To discard mythtv, I tried "cat /dev/video0 > foo.mpg" and the file
>>> experience the same issue. Also using "mplayer /dev/video0" have the same
>>> problem.
>>>  I have a 24xxx and a 29xxx card. This problem only happens with the
>>> 29xxx
>>> card.
>>>
>>>  I've been looking around for some logs or debug info but could not find
>>> any. When there is no audio, I checked the mute and volume control
>>> (/sys/class/pvrusb2/sn-6552697/) and they are fine. Also tried the
>>> standalone version of the driver (pvrusb2-mci-20090626) and the kernel
>>> that
>>> comes with Fedora 11 (Linux 2.6.29.6_ale) but no luck.
>>>
>>>  Any help is greatly appreciate.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Alejandro
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