On 3/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Al McIntosh</b> <<a href="mailto:junkmail@allanmcintosh.com">junkmail@allanmcintosh.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Stefįn Haflišason wrote:<br><br>>Hi all,<br>><br>>I'm using mythtv 0.19 with a PVR-350. Recently, I think since I upgraded<br>>to 0.19, I have been getting a constant flickering when watching live tv<br>>through the tuner or s-video inputs. The flickering might be better
<br>>described as a fairly regular flash of black.<br>><br>>I am also getting the following errors many times in /var/log/messages:<br>><br>>ivtv0 warning: prep_user_dma: SG_length 400 page_count 400 still full?
<br>>ivtv0-osd warning: ivtvfb_prep_dec_dma_to_device, Error with<br>>get_user_pages: 1638400 bytes, 400 pages returned<br>>ivtv0-osd warning: Error: prep osd dma to device rc=-5<br>>ivtv0-osd warning: DMA xfer from b7318008 of 1638400 bytes failed with
<br>>(-5) offset = 0x0, total 1638400<br>><br>>I am currently running:<br>><br>>kernel 2.6.10-r9 (Gentoo),<br>>PVR-350,<br>>ivtv 0.4.2 - I have just tried 0.4.0, no difference<br>><br>>The flickering only occurs when using the PVR-350's decoder to watch
<br>>something on either input (currently static on the tuner (limited access<br>>to aerial) and tv-out from another computer on the s-video input).<br>>Watching a previous recording (with no flicker) works fine.
<br>><br>>Thanks,<br>><br>>Stefan.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br>You may consider taking this topic over to ivtv mailing lists.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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Will do; apologies for the mis-posting.<br>
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