On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:41:40AM -0800, Andreas wrote: > Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 21:19:45 schrieben Sie: > [...] > > So what does all of this indicate? My original hunch was that it's a > > problem with the x50 hardware or driver (at least in combination with > > my motherboard). I think I'm back to that conclusion. > > > > BTW, in my testing last night, I tried changing the PCI latency timer > > on the x50 cards. I thought maybe it was holding off access to the > > 115 cards. Changing that had no effect. > > Just to let you know that you're not alone: > I had a simiilar problem with the combination of an AverMedia A180 and > two Asus Falcon (they use the ivtv drivers and firmware). Whenever one > of the Falcons was recording, I got blips and dropouts on the > AverMedia. I chalked it off to a flaky mainboard and seperated the > Falcons and the Avermedia in two different computers. A while later I
That does sound like the same problem. > got a new mainboard and additional ATSC tuner cards. As long as I had > two of the ATSC tuner cards installed, the recordings were ok, except > for an occasional dropout. But when I put a third ATSC tuner in, the > recordings were barely watchable. After I put two ATSC tuners (2x That sounds troubling since my current plan is to eventually remove the PVR x50 cards altogether and use 3 ATCS 115s in the one system. David -- David Engel da...@istwok.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
