[mythtvnz] Pixellation Every ~ 20 minutes

[Paulgir]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:00:08 +1300, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Oct 21, 2012 8:51 AM, "Paulgir" <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:36:56 +1300, Curtis Walker  
>> <sultanoswing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 October 2012 10:26, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>> This from the HVR2200 linuxTV wiki page
>>> (http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200):
>>>
>>> Open a terminal on your desktop and enter the following commands one  
>>> at a time:
>>>
>>> wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/22xxdrv_27086.zip
>>> wget  
>>> http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip
>>> wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/extract.sh
>>>
>>> You should see some stuff downloading after each of the above. Next
>>> (still in a terminal), run the extractor shell script:
>>>
>>> sh extract.sh
>>>
>>> You should now have 4 or 5 firmware files (*.fw) on your desktop. Now,
>>> still in the terminal, copy these extracted files to the correct
>>> place:
>>>
>>> cp *fw /lib/firmware
>>>
>>> Some linux distros, might need the following line instead of the above:
>>>
>>> cp *fw /lib/firmware/`uname -r`
>>>
>>> Hopefully this is simple enough!
>>>
>>
>> I found that my system did not have the dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw file  
>> either.
>> I copied it to lib/firmware yesterday and have not had any pixellation  
>> events since.
>> This bug certainly was a can of red herrings.Weird that in my case  
>> reduction of signal improved the problem.
>>
>> Many thanks Curtis for finding the real cause of this problem.
>
> The firmware file is packaged in ubuntu in linux-firmware-nonfree. What  
> distro are you guys on? I recall someone >mentioning arch. Maybe you  
> need to file a bug report?

I'm on Mythbuntu 11.10

Paul
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