Tvheadend

Hi,

I have the European version of this tuner/mpeg2 encoder:

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1950

According to the documentation it should work fine....

I am running the Arch Linux distro with kernel version: 3.16.1-1 64bit

The firmware files are installed correctly and so are the drivers - pvrusb2.

TVHeadend is setup and muxes have been scanned and added to channels. I am able to watch TV through both the VLC browser plugin and in addition XBMC plugin for TVH.

The issues I'm experiencing are an extremely high BER in the 10's of thousands and uncorrected bit error rate in the thousands.

Also for some reason I am unable to open the /dev/video0 device?? This is the analog input for composite/s-video. TVH complains that it either cannot open the device or that the device has no MPEG2 encoder.

I'm attaching the kernel output from my logs.

It's looking pretty much like a driver issue but I don't think that they have been updated for a while. The alternative could be hardware, however the device has just been purchased newly - it was the best thing I could find to aggregate both TV and external composite input to get my satellite settop box in XBMC.

The machine itself as an Intel Atom D2550 with 4GB RAM and an NVidia GT6xx embedded GPU.

Googl'ing around it seems that many people have experienced issues with this particular device and in particular the analog input.

Could any one suggest anything, or has anyone got any suggestions for me to try out. I have re-attached, power cycled, and restarted the TVH service?

On occasion I get it working, but after a short while it seems to lock up and then I'm back to square one...?

I even tried a different machine - my laptop with same results; works sometimes but not most time. Also very high BER on DVB-T input, however is tuneable and watchable until the picture becomes a set of color blocks!

Thanks.

[EDIT] Added TVH daemon log