[mythtvnz] Strange issues with TVOne and TV3

[Pshem Kowalczyk]

Had a look at that already - it doesn't seem to coincide with anything in cron.
One other thing I've noticed - the issues seem to occur on tvone and
tv3 at the same time (if I have both tuners recording).

kind regards
Pshem

On 15 March 2010 13:23, Jean-Francois Pirus <jfpn at clearfield.com> wrote:
>
> 1st thing I would check is your cron log file.
>
> See if any cron job matches the time of your glitches.
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Over a month ago I bought the Nova-500-TD (diversity card). After
>> initial issues with setup (internal splitter vs external one, cables
>> etc) I got it going. Everything seems to work fine, expect every now
>> and then a longer show (any movies around 1.5h and over) recorded of
>> tvone or tv3 has a minute or two of completely distorted picture and
>> garbled sound, then is all good again. It seems to be someone periodic
>> - somewhere between 90-100 minutes between the 'bad' patches. The
>> issue is definitely with recording not playback - the file has issues
>> in exactly the same places when played on different hardware/software.
>>
>> There are a few suspects (gathered mainly from various sites I read
>> whilst trying to identify the problem):
>> 1. The implementation of the remote in the driver (I use the remote
>> that connects to the card directly) - every now and then I get to see:
>> dib0700: Unknown remote controller key: 001d 2e d1 and a wrong key is
>> interpreted. I think high number of those entries roughly coincides
>> with the 'bad' patches.
>>
>> 2. the VIA usb controller that is on the card - apparently it doesn't
>> work very well in some scenarios under linux.
>>
>> 3. I think it might have something to do with bandwidth somewhere -
>> the issue is only present in HD recordings, but I have no idea where
>> the bottleneck might be. The raid5 setup (md) that I have can write up
>> to 100MB/s, so I don't think it's a disk issue.
>>
>> I have a gigabyte M85M-US2H (rev 1.2) motherboard.
>>
>> If you have similar setup or experienced similar problems - please let
>> me know. After a few weeks of investigation I'm getting a bit lost.
>> Before I get a new capture card and/or remote I would like to know if
>> it has a chance of actually fixing the problem.
>>
>> Thx in advance.
>>
>> regards
>> Pshem
>>
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