[mythtv-users] Partial lock on 0.21
John Veness
John.Veness.myth at pelago.org.uk
Thu Mar 20 22:27:44 UTC 2008
Rob Wise wrote:
> Since upgrading from 0.20.2 to 0.21 I am getting "Partial lock (LMs)"
> occurring about 15-20% of the time when recoding or changing channel
> in live tv. Prior to the upgrade I never saw this problem.
>
> A couple of things I have noticed:
> - The problem is not specific to any channel or multiplex.
> - It occurs whether on not Multirec is enabled.
> - When using Multirec I can have one virtual tuner in a partial lock
> state but the other virtual tuner can tune in to the same channel at
> the same time with no problems.
>
> My tuner detects as:
>
> [ 159.978805] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:01.0, irq: 20,
> latency: 32, mmio: 0xe2100000
> [ 159.978818] bttv0: detected: Twinhan VisionPlus DVB [card=113], PCI
> subsystem ID is 1822:0001
> [ 159.978821] bttv0: using: Twinhan DST + clones [card=113,autodetected]
>
> I have some debugs which may be of use but they're too big to include here.
> Working recording: http://pastebin.com/f43a44e09
> Failed recording: http://pastebin.com/fc2357d3
>
> Has anybody else seen this or could offer suggestions on how to resolve it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
Did you change anything else on your system at the same time as
upgrading to 0.21, like the kernel? 'Partial lock' stuff, I think, comes
from the v4l-dvb drivers, not MythTV itself, so I would be surprised if
MythTV changed things. I could be wrong, though.
Cheers,
John
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John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T
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