[mythtvnz] Pixellation Every ~ 20 minutes

[Paulgir]

>
> After fixing some reception issues with a home-made folded dipole, I  
> noticed
> a similar problem with pixellation approximately every 20 minutes.
>
> I believe this Pixellation problem may have been due to missing
> firmware. Specifically, my system was not loading the firmware for the  
> tda10048
> devices. It was successfully loading the saa7164, and tda18271 firmware,  
> however
> the tda10048 firmware file was missing.
>
> I downloaded HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip, and extract.sh from:
>
> http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/



>
> Then extracted the file dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw using extract.sh, and  
> copied the
> firnmware file to lib/firmware.

Could you describe how you do this in terms an idiot can follow?
How do you get extract.sh to do it's stuff.
I just tried it on my Ubuntu box and nothing seemed to happen.

-Paul




> Since then I have made four recordings with no pixellation issues  
> whatsoever.
>
> The Linuxtv.org wiki describes the tda10048 as a DVB-T demodulator.
>
> I am not completely convinced that the pixellation issue was caused by  
> this
> missing firmware file. However results so far are encouraging.
>
> What I don't understand is if this was the cause of the pixellation  
> issue,
> how then did the card manage to work while an apparently important  
> component
> - the tda10048 - was not actually functioning?
>
> The tda10048 firmware loading failure was in the last block of dmesg  
> output, so this
> should be easy to spot on your system.
>
>
> Cheers,
> John.
>
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