> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:37:25AM +0100, Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > > >What about the tda1004x - do you trust its counters? I'm definitely > > >getting packets flagged as errored from the demux device while the > > >uncorrected error count is always zero. > > > > maybe you want to check the counter reset code in the driver (or is it > > reset automatically at each read?) to be sure... > > Is it possible that the transport errors are actually caused by buffer > overflows inside the frontend? Is there a way to detect that? (Does it > even have buffers?) > > In MythTV when I'm changing channels on the Avermedia card (sp887x, > microtune frontend plus bt878 bridge), about 30-50% of the time I get > non-stop errors. If I quit from live TV and go in again (which doesn't > involve retuning the frontend), it works OK. No change in BER/UNC from > femon. > > The sp887x/dvb-bt8xx combination reports a Microtune 7202 tuner but > there's no mention of that on Microtune's web site, nor in Google > really. They do have a 7072 though. Could it be a typo? >
In mythtv I get continuous prebuffer pauses when I change channels on my AverTV DVB card (works fine if you exit and then re-enter live TV). My Nova-T's work great. I'm running Myth 0.14, kernel-2.6.3-rc1 and the CVS dvb-kernel compiled in. Paul -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
