[mythtvnz] DVB drivers location and .zst compression

Paul paulgir at gmail.com
Tue May 20 23:54:09 BST 2025


On 2025-05-21 10:41, Curtis Walker wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2025 at 10:19, Paul <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     I have been seeing minor artifacts (pixellation) , mainly after
>     skipping forward during playback.
>
>     Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200Back in my installation of MythTV on
>     Xubuntu 16.04 I saw a similar effect because one piece of firmware
>     (nxp7164-2010-03-10.1.fw) for
>
>     my Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200 was not in    /lib/firmware/'current
>     kernal'  , so I was checking the locations of the relevant
>     firmware and I see  /lib/firmware/'current kernal' no longer
>
>     exists.
>
>      The HVR-2200 drivers:   v4l-saa7164-1.0.2.fw      ;  
>     v4l-saa7164-1.0.3.fw     ;     cp dvb-fe-tda10048-1.0.fw       and
>      nxp7164-2010-03-10.1.fw    are currently all in
>
>     /lib/firmware.
>
>     The other thing I noticed is that all the firmware is Zstandard
>     compressed and the 4 HVR-2200 files with .fw extensions are
>     described in the Thunar file manager as "unknown".
>
>     Do I need to compress these files and convert them to .fw.zst
>     extensions  like all the others or are these ok as is?
>
>     Regards
>
>
> I may have missed it, but what distro are you currently using?
>
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Hi  , in recent weeks I went from 20.04 to 24.04 via 22.04 and to MythTV 
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