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

[Steven Ellis]

On Tue, April 15, 2008 11:37 am, 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) 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.
>
> Apart from setting up multirec I left all my other MythTV settings as
> they were for 0.20. I did originally  up the  simultaneous jobs
> setting from 1 to 2 but have since set this back to one with no
> noticeable difference.
>
> 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?

Ok a couple of things.

1. What is your signal strength like. The recent change in weather has
affected some peoples reception.

2. Is any of this happening around the time a recording will be
starting/stopping on another physical or virtual tuner.

steve
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