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

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:11 +0300, Otto Kolsi wrote:
> Otto Kolsi wrote:
> >> But I need probably another stream that starts before the errors occur 
> >> and ends after some errors are printend.
> > 
> > I'll try to get one.
> 
> Is there a way to capture TS stream from the card (using 'cat' or 
> something else?) without disturbing mythbackend? I've tried to capture 
> streams using 'cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0' but that somehow affects myth.
> 
> If e.g. active EIT scanning is started and I execute cat in another 
> shell, active scanner seems to be stopped somehow. And if I put cat to 
> hold (Ctrl-Z), active scanner re-activates. And when I bring cat command 
> to foreground ('fg'), myth scanning pauses again.
> 
> I only have one card so cannot capture stream from other while myth uses 
> the other.
> 
> I could capture stream without myth, but then it's just pure guessing 
> whether that stream would cause the stream of PES packet errors.. Any 
> ideas what to do next?

Try putting MythTV in "Antenna Adjust" mode, using F7.
Then try capturing the TS stream from the device using cat.

The antenna adjust mode should prevent the EIT scanner from
running, but keep signal monitoring going. It's possible that
a DVB driver bug corrupts the stream whenever a signal
monitoring ioctl is issued.

-- Daniel