snow / bad video!

[snook789]

I have been running 4.0 on my HDVR2 on my tivo for about a month.

Everything has been good, except I notice it always says the dvr is acquiring guide info.
So yesterday I ran through the satelite set up again, and it got stuck on 28% (which I read is a common problem) so I rebooted and the picture comes up with snow!

I have checked and swapped everything that I can think of, connections, cables, tv's
What would cause this ?

Attached is a picture, I see on every screen of the tivo

Appricate any help

[JohnSorTivo]

Everything has been good, except I notice it always says the dvr is acquiring guide info.

http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=39504

So yesterday I ran through the satelite set up again, and it got stuck on 28% (which I read is a common problem) so I rebooted and the picture comes up with snow!

Curious, are you launching the YAC listener at startup. This is a stab in the dark, but certain versions of YAC cause the snow that you are seeing.

[snook789]

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Curious, are you launching the YAC listener at startup. This is a stab in the dark, but certain versions of YAC cause the snow that you are seeing.

Yes, I am

Should I start it manually instead ?

[JohnSorTivo]

You can still launch it at startup. Writing to the screen with OSD, before launching YAC, will prevent the "permanent" snow condition. So, I launch YAC by doing using the following in my rc.sysinit.author file:

#Start YAC Caller ID Listener
/hack/osd/newtext2osd -s 5 -t "Launching YAC Listener"
sleep 5
/hack/osd/yac -t 10 &

There may be newer versions of YAC that have corrected this problem, but I haven't bothered, since the above approach works for me.

[snook789]

Yes, that was it!

I stopped Yac in Hackman, and snow went away
I start it again, and it comes back

I will try your advice

I am going to look at the link above to the patch
I read your posts, but I didn't know what the Guide Patch Fix was for
It is for removing the aquiring guide info ?

Thanks John!

[JohnSorTivo]

... but I didn't know what the Guide Patch Fix was for
Is it [sic] for removing the aquiring guide info ?

Yes.

http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...4&postcount=16

[snook789]

Thanks John, patch works.

I am still getting snow when I launch Yac
Any idea where I can fine a new version ?
I got mine here
http://sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/

Weird how I ran it for weeks without a problem, then all of a sudden I get this snow...

[JohnSorTivo]

I am still getting snow when I launch Yac
Any idea where I can fine a new version ?

Where are you starting YAC? Did you change to launch it via your init file as described above?

However you launch it, as long as you first write something / anything to screen first, using your osd writer, the snow will go away.

EDIT: You can also look through this thread for any updated versions of the YAC listener for your tivo.