[mythtvnz] followup of new 0.27 install

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Curtis Walker <sultanoswing at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 15 Oct 2013 09:11, "Paulgir" <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:49:53 +1300, Mark van Dijk <
> mark.van.dijk.74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I've put some extra memory in the machine (now 2GB).
> >>
> >> most of the video looks perfect (tested TV2) - however every 10-20 mins
> or so, the video becomes unwatchable due to MPEG artifacts which last for
> 1-2 minutes getting worse and worse before suddenly going right again.  I
> played the video file on another machine, and the artifacts are still there
> - therefore the artifacts are in the recorded stream.
> >>
> >> Signal strength on my HVR-2200 tuner card is very good, and booting up
> to the old 0.23 Myth install makes the issue dissappear.  Nothing in dmesg
> or myth frontend/backend logs.
>

Are they running the same kernel?



> >>
> >> Found this thread which seems to match what i'm seeing:
> >>     http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/498115
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >
> > I and another list member had a similar problem that was caused by a
> missing driver.
> > See this thread:  Pixellation every 20 minutes
> >
> > Cheers
> > Paul
> >
> Yeah, that was me.... and yes, it definitely sounds like you need to
> download the firmware for the DVB-T card. Should solve this without doing
> what I did, which was upgrade roof aerial etc etc.... :)
>


If running *buntu make sure you have linux-firmware-nonfree installed. It
isn't installed by default (even on mythbuntu, which really needs it).



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