[mythtvnz] Updated packages available

[Douglas Pearless]

Yep, signal strength is typically 40%.
TV 1 BE 0, no problems, but TV3 sometimes has BE 65535 and lots of 
artifacts, crashes (appears to be in H.264 decoding), but, surely a 
codec should not cause a seg fault?
TV 1, 6 & 7 seem to be the most reliable (BE 0), but they too eventually 
crash.
TV 2 sometimes gets a picture in picture effect when the image suddenly 
becomes 2/3 the size and is drawn from the top left.
TV 3 sometimes gets repeated three times so the screen has three images 
in the form of three stacked rectangles all working (really weird to watch!)

Getting there, but still not quite.

BTW, on TV 6, with 4 CPU core's working, one usually 20%, the others 5-6 
% (includes work required to display the CPU's in real-time), sometimes 
I get 6% on all 4 CPU cores!

Cheers
Douglas.


Paul Kendall wrote:
> On Saturday 11 October 2008 13:06:43 Paul Kendall wrote:
>   
>> On Saturday 11 October 2008 10:49:22 Douglas Pearless wrote:
>>     
>>>    Hmm,  I just applied your latest update and I seem to be getting a
>>> lot of seg faults now:
>>>
>>>    (lots of messages like the next line, then seg fault)
>>>
>>>    2008-10-11 10:45:13.733 [h264 @ 0xb70ddd10]number of reference
>>> frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one
>>> 2008-10-11 10:45:13.737 [h264 @ 0xb70ddd10]error while decoding MB 55
>>> 34, bytestream (-3)
>>> Segmentation fault
>>>
>>>    Mythtv on LiveTV runs anything from an immediate segfault, to
>>> staying up for some minutes, or longer.
>>>       
>> I have seen this when my signal strength is poor.
>> I have a desktop antenna so my strength is normally very low.
>> I get about 38% on TV1 & 2, but very low on TV3 and I get this kind of
>> error quite a bit.
>>
>>     
> Replying to myself...
> It's the bit-error rate not the signal strength, but it is related.
> On most channels I get 0 but on 3 & 4 I get between 250 & 3000!
> The higher the BE the worse the problem. You can see the BE next to the signal 
> strength on the OSD when you first change to the channel.
>
> Hope this helps Douglas.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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