[mythtv] Changes to tv recording recently?

Ed W lists at wildgooses.com
Thu May 13 18:50:56 UTC 2010


On 13/05/2010 18:47, Ed W wrote:
> Hi, I have recently started to get signficant glitches (every second 
> or two) when recording DVB-T channels.  It happened at the same time 
> as I swapped hardware and I had initially assumed it was the hardware 
> change, but having investigated further:
>
> - The cards are reporting decent signal and for long periods of time 
> zero correctable/uncorrectable errors
> - The first few minutes of recording are glitch free, then the 
> glitches start, simply retuning to the same channel then gives a 
> further few mins glitch free...
> - Glitch is on the recording itself, ie if you rewind and play again 
> then the glitch is repeatable at the same point
>
>
> So this sounds like it might be a problem with mythbackend? I have 
> eyeballed the commit list, but can't immediately see what might be 
> causing this? Does anyone have a suggestion on some changes which 
> might have caused this?
>

Hmm, additional - tuning manually and using mplayer I don't see any 
glitches.  This suggests it is more likely to be a myth problem.  Could 
anyone point me to some likely changes in trunk that might be causing 
this please?

Thanks

Ed W


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