When I try to watch live tv I get a blank screen popping up, then nothing. I have to start an xterm and kill the front end to recover.

I tried deleting my card, etc in setup, and re-adding them but still no joy.

However the following works:
1. cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/video.mpg
2. scp to windows box
3. view with powerdvd

So this shows the card and driver are working anyway.

I went through the black screen page on the wiki, but even though I have a "tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 50)", it seems to be detected ok (I don't get tuner type 4). In R5D1 I did have to manually select the tuner type.

Playing back previously recorded shows works as expected, so its strictly a capture issue.

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nMediaPC HT100SA ASUS A8N-VM CSM
AMD 3200+ AMPO DDR 3200 512MB RAM
PVR-150 (1062) WD 320 GB SATA-2 HD
NEC OEM ND-3550A DVD burner
D-Link DWL-G510 PCI wireless adapter
MS wireless optical desktop 1000
R5F27 (+ modified sa3250ch)

Your answer should be here: Mine was doing the same thing..

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13108

Yes, it is this one! You know you read this stuff over and over and it doesn't click sometimes. I record using 702x480 so I didn't think this pertained to me, but since I tested with the LiveTV profile (which I never otherwise use) it bit me.

3) There is a known IVTV issue with some PVR-150 and PVR-500 cards using the default 480x480 recording profile and VBI encoding. See the postings by ethernut here - http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13097 Switching to a 720x480 resolutiuon will cure it, but don't forget to adjust your recording bit rates to match.

Thanks everyone for all of the help over the last 24 hours, I do appreciate it!