Rainer Zocholl writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED](Ralph Metzler) 14.10.01 23:09 > > Once upon a time Ralph Metzler shaped the electrons to say... > > >Rainer Zocholl writes: > >> Are here other user of "budget" cards like "WinTV nova 541"? > >> > >> If they have time would someone be so kind and > >> do a > >> > >> grep "ERROR: can't record MPEG1!" /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog > >> grep "ERROR: skipped" /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog > >> grep "ERROR: unknown picture type" /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog > >> > >> (Or whereever your syslog.conf logs, maybe > >> zcat /var/log/*.gz | grep ERROR > >> to get some older/longer time infos ) > > >Sorry, but all these messages are not from the DVB driver. > > Jepp. But the problem seems not to be in the application.
Why? > >Which application is producing them and under which circumstances??? > > "(Kernel 2.4.10, *VDR 0.96*, snaphot DVB, Intel)" This does not tell me under which circumstances the mentioned messages occur. "ERROR: can't record MPEG1!" or "ERROR: skipped" does not really tell me what is going on. > These messages are only indicators. From DVB-drvicer i didn't get > such (warning) messages (if i do not count the kernel oopses that > sometimes happened in DVBdemux etc. memcpy-routines because the Do you mean dvb_demux.c? Where does this oops occur in there? Can you run it through ksymoops? > >> Maybe there is is still a tiny problem with this type card? > >> I have tested two, both are not working flawlessly in Intel 815 > >> (had only Intels avail) (Artefacts. Sound probs. no tune from "H" to > >> "V" etc) The "full" 1.5 and 2.1 records errors free(as far as > >> i can see and as long it is logged at all) > > >Do you have sample code which produces streams > >with artifacts and sound problems? > > What "code"? > Maybe i have saved a record with those artefacts. > Do you mean that? No, I mean a simple program which records the kind of stream you have problems with and shows those artifacts. > The driver is involved only so far as that he seems to rely on that > the received data is in "spec". But sometimes the garbage seems to > lead the driver to try to copy more data in the buffer as would fit: Oops. > Maybe VDR delievers wrong pointers, but that too should never > lead to a kernel oops andf why should it depend on the board used? Without something like a ksymoops dump I really cannot do anything. Ralph -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
