[mythtvnz] Strange issues with TVOne and TV3

[Jean-Francois Pirus]

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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