The World of a Penguin

I gave up on my problems with Hauppauge PVR 500MCE. I think the card is broken. Instead I saw a shop selling a KISS PVR 558 for about €200. So I bought one. The box runs Linux and the GPL-parts of the software can be downloaded as source. I can FTP to the box and read and write videos, pictures and audio files. The box support free format such as OGG as well as propitary formats. Through their web service can I program it to record a show where ever I am. I have now uploaded the go-open TV-shows and can finally look at them from my sofa, without having the laptop in my knee. The campaign and shows was sponsored by Canonical and HP among others.

I did a network install yesterday of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 5 on my meant to be TV-computer. I have earlier struggled with getting a good picture with my Hauppauge PVR 500MCE. A few weeks ago I noted that Feisty will have full support for the TV-card, including firmware. Today it was time to try it out. It worked out of the box, I did noting extra. Brilliant!! But, a big BUT ... there is still a bad picture. If I amplify the signal, it get worse. If I reduce the signal then it, also, get worse. It looks like there are two problems; noise and not fully correct tuned signal. So on the picture quality view nothing had been better since last time. Does anyone have any ideas? I start to believe that I have a hardware problem, maybe it is time to buy another card. The new feature within Feisty that suggests what application or decoder you need to show a file works great. This feature will simplify for a lot of users. By the way, here is a dump of my dmesg output. Everything looks good, from...