Comment 4 for bug 248104

I wanted to note that this issue seems to have a related one: often, after this bug occurs, the recording hardware will stop working, and will continue to generate empty recordings until the machine is rebooted. This happens to me, and is often mentioned in forums. An obvious hack is to schedule a reboot every night, to ensure that one misses at most a day's worth of shows, but that's not very elegant.

The dev commenting on a similar bug (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5507) called it a hardware issue, but it's not card-specific -- it is reported across a wide variety of hardware. Could this be a v4l issue or something?