[mythtvnz] Cause of occasional audio/video jumps in playback?

[Steven Ellis]

On Tue, April 15, 2008 12:00 pm, Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 11:37:23 Matt Poff wrote:
>> I recently did an upgrade to the Ubuntu Gutsy backport of 0.21 and set-
>> up 3 virtual tuners on each Skystar II card (from reading the list,
>> looks like the same set-up as Hads)
>
> Yeah, the same except the cards - I'm using Technotrend ones.
>
>> and everything's working well
>> except my recordings have occasional drop-outs in audio and/or video
>> during playback. When I say drop-out I mean the stream glitches and a
>> half-second of audio/video disappears.
> [...]
>> Have done a bit of Googling on this but none of the troubleshooting
>> symptoms I found seemed applicable to what I'm getting here. Anyone
>> else got these sort of artifacts with multirec set-up?
>
> Can't say I see those issues here. The only thing that sounds slightly
> familiar is when the DVB cards tune there is often a slight (<500ms)
> interrupt in the Sky feed. It's not bothered me enough to look into it.
>

What type of splitter are you using?


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