[mythtvnz] configuring hvr-2200 card

[David Moore]

On 02/10/11 15:41, Robin Gilks wrote:
>
>> I think flaky is not too unkind a word to use regarding the analogue
>> side. I have finally succeeded in recording an old VHS tape after a few
>> attempts. I have my setup like this:
>>
>> VCR-->composite vid+audio-->DVD Recorder-->s-video+audio-->HVR-2200
>>
>> Second to last trial failed to accept the signal from the VCR even
>> though the port worked with other signals. Had to reboot to recover the
>> analogue. After the reboot I started myth recording a "good" signal then
>> switched the DVD recorder input to the VCR and all seems good. I suspect
>> the SAA7164 MPEG encoder may be a bit fragile.
>>
>> I got these errors in mythbackend.log when the 2nd last attempt failed:
>>
>> 2011-10-02 14:22:17.288 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving up
>> 2011-10-02 14:22:17.305 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device error detected
>> 2011-10-02 14:22:17.315 DevRdB(/dev/video0): Stop(): Not running.
>> 2
>
> Interesting - thats the errors I see from the pvr150 at the point it dies.
> Sounds more and more like a problem with 0.24.1 rather than hardware dying
> (says he $130 and 20 hours down trying for a replacement).
>
> Cheers
>
Or maybe the HVR-2200 driver borrows code from the PVR-150 or they have 
similar MPEG encoders?

Finished recording my first tape. All good except I used LiveTV 
recording which automatically split the recording into two files at 3 
pm. I guess I'll change the LiveTV config to get around this in future 
or may even try mencoder or similar instead of myth for recording VHS tapes.