[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1888: EIT failures with Finnish channels (DVB-T)

[Janne Grunau]

On Saturday 08 July 2006 13:45, Otto Kolsi wrote:
> > #1888: EIT failures with Finnish channels (DVB-T)
> > Comment (by Janne <janne-mythtv at grunau.be>):
> >
> >  The attached stream gives just one "out of sync error" and is
> > otherwise perfectly valid as EIT packet are involved.
>
> I could try to capture more streams or run some other tools if
> someone would tell me what to do :)

Can you please look on what PID the signalmonitor is listening (look for 
AddPIDFilter before the stream of errors with -v channel).
But I need probably another stream that starts before the errors occur 
and ends after some errors are printend.

> When this situation occurs, these error messages are printed 200 -
> 250 times / second to logs during 5-10 minute period. And these
> periods can occur 1-3 times / hour (just quick approximations).

Do the error only occur if the encoder is idle or also while the backend 
records?

> Even though I don't know the stuff, it seems that myth goes somehow
> out of sync with the data and stays that way far too long. We should
> be able to break out from this.

I suspect the same, see me comment above.

> If this PES packet situation is not related to the bogus EIT data,
> then I think we have two separate problems to be fixed.

Probably, I'm debugging the bogus data now.

> And for the record, there was no bogus data or these PES errors
> before the EIT merge some time ago.

We know.

Janne