[mythtvnz] Pixellation Every ~ 20 minutes

[Nick Rout]

On Oct 21, 2012 10:00 AM, "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?

Its also packaged in linhes in dvb-firmware. Linhes is based on arch but
has it's own repositories.
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