HVR-955q Linux Driver Performance

Over the years we have assembled a variety of tools for evaluting tuner performance. Most of these are internal home-grown command line utilities and scripts which perform some superset of comparable end-user applications, with a particular emphasis on automation and logging statistics that regular users typically wouldn’t need. We use these tools for a variety… Read More

HVR2200 Corrupt Image?

We’ve had a handful of reports cropping up related to HVR2200 model#89619 cards. With Ubuntu 12.04.1 the driver would attempt to load firmware from file NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw length 4019072 as defined in the saa7164-fw.c driver source. (Hint: it’s not really an Ubuntu error) Sep 13 07:50:56 dell kernel: [ 83.432854] saa7164_downloadimage() image corrupt Sep 13 07:50:56… Read More

HVR-950q patches submitted upstream!

After a rather large bug hunt, I’ve finally submitted the HVR-950q patches upstream. In the end, we created 24 patches addressing a ton of longstanding bugs: au8522: fix intermittent lockup of analog video decoder au8522: Fix off-by-one in SNR table for QAM256 au8522: properly recover from the au8522 delivering misaligned TS streams au0828: Make the… Read More