> > Hi all, > > > > I've been having a couple of issues with this card: I've finally managed > > to get it working fine as far as viewing TV in xawtv/motv goes, but have > > the following issues: > > > > 1) Every now and then running xawtv/motv will cause a system hang. This > > doesn't happen at all often, but does happen. > > On FlyVideo2000 I haven't seen this happen (yet) I haven't had this problem lately: latest releases of saa7134 might have fixed this methinks. > > 2) Running xawtv with the -noxv switch seems to consistently hang my > > machine. > > Hmm. What is your hardware/software config? Will test this again with latest release & let you know if there are still issues. > > 3) Occasionally flipping channels results in the sound being messed up: by > > flipping back and forth I can often rectify this. In fullscreen mode, > > flipping channels sometimes results in a black-screen with the correct > > sound: again, flipping back and forth fixes this. > > I occasionally see the video black screen problem also. Somehow the video > sync is lost and the driver stops sending video data? (I'm speculating > here) > > As for sound being messed up, do you mean sound / channel mismatch? > > I suspect that the I/O access to the card doesn't always work properly, > and the registers don't get programmed to the correct values once in a > while. (This is beyond my expertise). As in the sound changes to a static buzz (possibly a channel mismatch). Flipping between the channels usually rectifies this problem, and fixes video as well (if there's no video coming through). I suspect that the video problem when changes channels is related to the problem when entering fullscreen mode, possibly something to do with telling the TV card where to overlay the video on the screen? This is definitely _way_ beyond my expertise, but this would be my guess. As you've pointed out, this is all probably one big problem. > I think saa7134 is horribly broken wrt. mp1e support. Don't know where the > problem is... (Gerd?) > > Has anyone gotten mp1e to work with a v4l2 based driver/card other than > saa7134? It'd be interesting to compare notes. As Dave reported, the latest versions of saa7134 seem to allow me to record fine with both streamer & mp1e. I've found mp1e to be pretty useless, however, since it gets the video & audio horribly out of sync (probably something to do with the fact that mp1e favours ALSA instead of OSS, and also that I only have a P-II 233Mhz!) streamer has been pretty cool though. All hail to Gerd (and anyone else who helped) for fixing things up: you are true legends. So... as Dave mentioned is his reply to this email, it seems the only remaining problem lies with the occasional static/blackouts which we suspect are related... Ciao Carl
