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[Jarjar]

Hi there...

As mentioned in other threads I am new to the PLi Image for DM500, and I find it very handsome.

But I have an issue here...

When I change channels my TV loses the signal connection for a short time but then it's able to reconnect again. It's a little bit annoying, but I thought I ask if there's anything I can do about it?

My DM500 (Cable) is connected to an AV-Receiver via S-Video and my Yamaha RX-V1700 AV-Receiver ist connected to my Panasonic TH-50PV700 Plasma-TV via HDMI-Cable.

I use the "pli-jade-dm500-20081003-5635" image at the moment.

I didn't have this issue with the Gemini Image in my DM500C (am I aloud to mention this here?)

Hope someone can help?

Greets


Jarjar

[pieterg]

If you mean you see a small freeze in the picture 30s or so after zapping, that could be the automatic timeshift (which you can disable).

[Jarjar]

No that's not what I mean.

When I change channels the screen goes black and my Pana-TV shows the signal source information (HDMI1) in the upper left corner for a short time. After about two seconds the TV-Channel is back again.

Greets

Jarjar

[pieterg]

so the scart drops pin 8?

[Jarjar]

Hmmm, I don't know... I have no idea what pin 8 does... Everything is plugged correctly. And as I mentioned, I didn't have this issue with another image I used before. I really would like to stick with PLi...

[pieterg]

this can only be a hardware or driver issue, as I don't think enigma actively controls this signal (scart pin 8 is used to tell the tv there is a signal, and whether the signal is 4:3 or 16:9)
If a different image still works, you might want to try the two different driver releases we put online (normal / old framebuffer). The only difference between those two images is the driver version.

but my best guess would be you recently changed something about your tv; connected a new hdmi device, or changed the tv's default input, or moved the dreambox scart from port 1 to 2, or something like that.
Normally, the tv doesn't switch to a different input when you drop pin 8 (or pull the scart), unless it prefers a different input, or sees some activity on a different input.

[Jarjar]

Hi peterg

Thank you for your help.

Which image would you recommend then, I have the "pli-jade-dm500-20081003-5635" in the box now...

Didn't find any other or am I blind?

Greets

Jarjar

[pieterg]

I don't recommend any other image, and indeed, nobody else has ever reported such an issue with our image.
That's why I suspected your tv setup, or possibly hardware.

[Jarjar]

As I told before... I used the Gemini Image first with no issue like that.
I didn't change anything with my TV setup. I just uploaded the new PLi firm to the box. I swear! :-)

I know I could switch back to the gemini project if I am not happy with PLi, but I find PLi definitly better. So I would like to stick with that but trying to solve this problem.

[WanWizard]

Pieterg suggested to try the pli-jade-dm500-old-framebuffer-20081001-5635 in our downloads. Same PLi version, but with older Dream drivers. To check if it is driver related. It could be that the image you used before uses other/older drivers.

[hemispherical1]

I believe the last few Gemini 500 releases have used their/DMM's unique clone kill head.ko. I'm unaware of any other images using it...



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[Jarjar]

Hi there

Just to give you some update. I tried to install the image with the "old framebuffer". But my box didn't work at all with this one. It always hung itself up while booting.

I switched back to the Gemini Image and now this one has this problem too. But that wasn't the case before. So I installed now the PLi image again, since it doesn't matter which image i use if both have this issue.

Well, I guess I have to connect my box in a different way to the TV (directly via Scart and not via S-Video cable to the receiver and then to the TV) maybe this will get the job done.

Greets and thank you for trying to help!


Jarjar

[hemertje]

for the CDK boxes like the old 500 flash as following:

- factory reset
- root.cramfs flashing method incl reboot
- again factory reset

now your box is completely clean without stuff from older images which can cause trouble as you described