More than occasional choppiness when changing channels

[AboveUnrefined]

I found that the system will hard lock (!) after a certain period of time starting sage like this, however it does help with the choppiness.

[zoop]

ok, i think i have found a quick workaround to this issue (thank goodness, it was really irritating). apparantly a quick change of inputs with ivtvctl will allow the video to resync, eliminating this issue. a cron job to do this every hour on the hour seems to have helped. i use the svideo input on my pvr150, so this input may not be the same as what you use, but it will be similar:

STVMC-669 utils # crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.XXXXWv8rwa installed on Mon Feb 27 16:39:14 2006)
# (Cron version 0 * * * * /root/ivtv-fix >> /dev/null 2>&1
V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $)
0 * * * * /root/ivtv-fix >> /dev/null 2>&1

STVMC-669 utils # cat /root/ivtv-fix
/usr/sbin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 --set-input=2 ; /usr/sbin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 --set-input=3

i will advise if this works over the next few days...