[pvrusb2] WinTV PVR USB2 picture distortion - upgrade from kernel 2.6.29.3 to 2.6.30

[Mike Isely]

Alex:

Please look at the posts from the past week.  It's the same problem, and 
a fix is forthcoming.

  -Mike


On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Alex Kilgore wrote:

> Hi,
> Recently I updated my kernel from 2.6.29.3 to 2.6.30, and my
> WinTV PVR USB2 picture is now no longer correct, it has red, blue and green
> vertical lines going down it and only about half of it appears
> 
> It looks *fine* when i read from /dev/video0 with mplayer
> but when I use mythtv, the picture is distorted (amd then after quitting, even
> using mplayer, it shows the same symptom) until I reload the pvrusb2 module, I
> would think that this is some sort of configuration error with mythtv, except
> for the fact that it operates fine when i move back to kernel 2.6.29.3
> 
> This is the output when the card is detected
> 
> [    6.156355] cx25840 1-0044: firmware: requesting v4l-cx25840.fw
> [    6.929460] cx25840 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes)
> [    6.967078] tveeprom 1-00a2: Hauppauge model 24012, rev C3A3, serial#
> 8579815
> [    6.967083] tveeprom 1-00a2: tuner model is TCL MFNM05-4 (idx 103,
> type 43)
> [    6.967088] tveeprom 1-00a2: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> [    6.967091] tveeprom 1-00a2: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
> [    6.967095] tveeprom 1-00a2: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
> [    6.967099] tveeprom 1-00a2: has radio, has IR receiver, has no IR
> transmitter
> [    6.967106] pvrusb2: Supported video standard(s) reported available
> in hardware: PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk
> [    6.967111] pvrusb2: Mapping standards mask=0xb700
> (PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk)
> [    6.967115] pvrusb2: Setting up 6 unique standard(s)
> [    6.967119] pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=0 name=PAL-M
> [    6.967122] pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=1 name=PAL-N
> [    6.967126] pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=2 name=PAL-Nc
> [    6.967130] pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=3 name=NTSC-M
> [    6.967133] pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=4 name=NTSC-Mj
> [    6.967137] pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=5 name=NTSC-Mk
> [    6.967141] pvrusb2: Initial video standard guessed as NTSC-M
> [    6.967152] pvrusb2: Device initialization completed successfully.
> [    6.967231] pvrusb2: registered device video0 [mpeg]
> [    6.967255] pvrusb2: registered device radio0 [mpeg]
> [    6.967945] usb 1-5.4: firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
> [    7.311324] tuner-simple 1-0061: creating new instance
> [    7.311328] tuner-simple 1-0061: type set to 43 (Philips NTSC MK3
> (FM1236MK3 or FM1236/F))
> 
> Has anyone else experienced similar issues?
> Thanks for your time
> Alex
> 
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