jettjunker
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 Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:21 am Post subject: usb tuner video choppy and causes system freezes |
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I have an AverMedia AverTV Hybrid Volar Max, downloaded and installed the linux 64 driver from their website, and got it kinda working. When I run tvtime (or through mplayer for that matter), the terminal continuously displays | Code: | | videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Invalid argument (#) |
and is stuck displaying a single frame while the CPU usage goes to 100%, though the audio continues uninterrupted. Also, /var/log/messages spams the following at a ridiculous rate: | Code: | Apr 5 23:06:02 beetle [ 1072.185451] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: reused qh ffff88007e8451e0 schedule
Apr 5 23:06:02 beetle [ 1072.185456] usb 1-6: link qh1-0001/ffff88007e8451e0 start 0 [2/0 us]
Apr 5 23:06:02 beetle [ 1072.186315] usb 1-6: unlink qh1-0001/ffff88007e8451e0 start 0 [2/0 us] |
One odd thing I noticed is that if I continuously move the mouse around on the screen the video starts working (though still not entirely reliably), and the CPU usage drops to something reasonable (20% or so). It also froze on me a few times while messing around though, both while moving the mouse around in circles over the video window and while not.
I tried with and without compiz, and in gnome and fluxbox (it actually seemed to work better in gnome -- the moving mouse thing worked more reliably).
It'd be nice to get it working, but I'm not holding my breath... any ideas?
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