[mythtv-users] DVB: Recording length keeps changing!!

[Paul McDermott]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:45, Jon Dye wrote:
> I've had this with a Nova-T card.  I discovered the problem was that the 
> recording had errors in it which meant that at certain points in 
> playback the length calculations were wrong which also meant that 
> skipping forward and back went to the wrong place (e.g. instead of 30s 
> forward I went 2mins back!).

Yes, I've got that too!

> Take a look at the log for your backend and see if you are getting 
> warnings like this:
> DVB#0 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error.
> if you are then your recordings are probably screwed!  I solved this by 
> adding a kernel parameter when loading the dvb-ttpci module to increase 
> the buffers:
> modprobe dvb-ttpci buffers=4
> (For the 1.0.1 dvb modules).

That did it--thanks!

Paul