[mythtv-users] Strong signal, ugly artifacts...

[Andrea Giuliano]

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 00:15 +0200, Jonas Kvinge wrote:
> Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm seeing horrible artifacts in my DVB-S recordings, even though MythTV
> > says the signal strength is 99%. Clearly, LiveTV is ugly too. I recently
> > changed my graphics card, but the DVB-S card is still the same, so I
> > guess the graphics card is not responsible for the artifacts.
> > 
> > More precisely, the movies are very often full of big squares, and they
> > even more often appear as a fresh painting under the rain (colors and
> > shapes fade and mix with each other, I can't explain better than that,
> > sorry).
> > 
> > At present my media box is almost useless. Any hint will be much
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > Best regards.
> > 
> 
> What DVB-S card do you have?

My card is KWorld DVB-S 100 (it's usually reported as working, even it's
a budget card). Below is part of dmesg that could give some info:

cx88[0]: subsystem: 17de:08b2, board: KWorld DVB-S 100
[card=39,autodetected]
cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.6 loaded
cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb access: shared
cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 17de:08b2, board: KWorld DVB-S 100 [card=39]
cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card
DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0])
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Conexant CX24123/CX24109)...

But now I have some interesting news.

I'm getting problem with kernel 2.6.26-2 (that's the default kernel for
Debian Lenny at present), but... if I run kernel 2.6.18-1, everything
works fine!

More precisely, I get no artifacts, the S/N ratio is much better, and
femon -H shows a good snr too. Also, femon doesn't show the message
"Problem retrieving frontend information: Operation not supported" as it
does with 2.6.26-2.

Unfortunately, I cannot use 2.6.18 without reconfiguring nVidia legacy
drivers for that kernel version, but that's just a matter of time to
waste, I'm sure I will do it.

But there must be something wrong with my card, in the end: I've been
running 2.6.26-2 for several months, and I got the above problems rather
recently, so it cannot be just a matter of kernel/drivers.

Only one more thing: other players show the same problem, too. Mplayer,
xine, totem, they all get stuck or give choppy audio/video, artifacts
etc...

Best regards.


> 
> Jonas
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