<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><p dir="ltr">10:1 it is a signal strength or noise issue. Cable, splitter, water ingress, ....</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://nz.overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></p>
</td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
<div>
<br />
<div>
<div style="font-size:0.9em">
<hr size="1">
<b>
<span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span>
</b>
Aaron Pelly <apelly@monkeymasters.co.nz>; <br>
<b>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span>
</b>
MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz>; <br>
<b>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span>
</b>
Re: [mythtvnz] Pixelation/Corrupt recordings <br>
<b>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span>
</b>
Mon, Jul 7, 2014 12:08:50 AM <br>
</div>
<br>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top">On 07/07/14 11:23, Steve Hodge wrote:<br clear="none">> If it's not consistently happening with simultaneous recordings it's <br clear="none">> probably not a throughput issue. You could try recording say 6 things <br clear="none">> at once to test this.<br clear="none">You made me watch some Home and Away. Damn you!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Inconclusive results. iotop shows about 2MB/sec to two storage groups.<br clear="none">gnome-system-monitor shows mythbackend and mount.ntfs both ranging from <br clear="none">3 to 6% CPU. Both cpus running about 15-20%<br clear="none">some recordings OK. Some show corruption. Corrupt shows are on Sommet <br clear="none">and Prime. This is not always the case.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Interesting backend log entry:<br clear="none">11:55:39 zeus mythbackend: mythbackend[2503]: W DeviceReadBuffer <br
clear="none">recorders/DeviceReadBuffer.cpp:555 (Poll) <br clear="none">DevRdB(/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend1): Poll took an unusually long time <br clear="none">2547 ms<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Last 2000 lines of the backend log:<br clear="none">cat /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log | tail -2000 | pastebinit<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/7757924/" target="_blank">http://paste.ubuntu.com/7757924/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'll investigate that log entry further.<div class="yqt6517201635" id="yqtfd15414"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Aaron.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">mythtvnz mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz" href="javascript:return">mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz"
target="_blank">http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz</a><br clear="none">Archives <a shape="rect" href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/</a><br clear="none"></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>