[mythtv] what does "DVBRec(1): PID 0x840 discontinuity detected" mean?

[Paul Wheeler]

On 10/3/06, Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:43:43PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is it safe to apply the diff for 11334 to 0-20-fixes or will it need
> > > > other patches to work?
> > >
> > > well, I did that anyway, and it seems as though only my HD3000 card
> > > has issues (perhaps moving it to another pci slot?), as the A180's
> > > recorded together fine, and only showed any problems once the HD3000
> > > started recording.
> > >
> > > any way, let me know about how exactly I should test the patch (I'll
> > > guess I did it wrong) and I'll try that...
> >
> > errors still show up but now they don't cause me to miss whole blocks
> > of seconds, just minor blips. which i guess is an improvement. I'd
> > still love to know why this started happening. I even replaced the
> > HD3000 with a new card and get the problem....
> >
>
> That's what I would expect it to do. Previously it was keeping
> the partial packet when it suffered a discontinuity. Now it throws
> away that partial packet and waits for the start of a new one.
>
> The net effect as you have noticed is that only the small error
> is seen, rather than the larger one.
>
Is it possible to apply this to fixes as well as trunk? Does it count
enough as a bug?

Thanks

Paul

>
> Stuart
>
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