<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 23/05/2009, at 12:01 PM, Mark van Dijk wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I have a Hauppague PVR-500 card (dual analog). Occasionally, something <br>seems to go wrong with one of the tuners, such as:<br> 1) no sound<br> 2) ok sound, but extremely poor picture quality<br> 3) pure static (both pic and sound)<br> 4) no recording file at all (i.e. MythTv has a recording entry in the <br>DB, but no MPEG file on disk)<br><br>This is only very occasionally (maybe once every 2 weeks) - and <br>generally (though not always) seems to occur after my box has been <br>running for more than a day or two. a simple reboot normally fixes the <br>issue immediately. Funny thing is that when the issue occurs, the other <br>tuner continues to work as normal. Once the issue starts, it will not <br>go away on its own, and from then on, any recordings that use that tuner <br>are no good. This has been an issue through several clean installations <br>of Mythbuntu (from 7.10 to 9.04).<br><br>It is entirely possible that I have a faulty motherboard (a very old <br>Asus A7N8X-deluxe). I have had issues for years with USB devices under <br>both Linux and Windows on this machine...<br><br>Is it possible to do a software reset of the tuner card somehow so that <br>i don't have to reboot the machine? If so, then perhaps i can get <br>MythTv to reset the card before each recording.<br><br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Try asking on the LinuxMedia mailing list as Hans Verkil who wrote the driver is usually there.</div><div><br></div><div>Sadly I don't think you can. I spent a bunch of time trying to resolve these sorts of issues, and Hans has put a lot of work arounds in the driver, but it still occasionally goes wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>