On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:20:59PM -0500, Michael Haan wrote: > > How often does it do this? Is it always the same channel? What is your > > receiving signal strength? > > > > --Brandon > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > Started off, this was happening in myth when watching hd recordings. If a > recording froze, it would consistently freeze in the same place. So I > manually record off of the 3000 using azap. Playing back with mplayer > causes mplayer to dump at the same spot everytine. It seems to happen on > most channels, eventually.
By the design of HD tuners, you either get the data or not, there's no middle ground. If you're getting corrupt data part way through it's either because you can't write to disk fast enough (Or your system is under a huge amount of stress) and myth's file writer thread discards the data, or, you're not receiving a good and steady signal. If you're not getting good enough signal all the time then you can't expect a tuner card to work well. Tree's moving is probably the most common cause of "it works good most of the time" situation. Sometimes a plane or helicopter can block the signal long enough that even the redundant data sent in an MPEG2-TS stream isn't enough and so you lose data. If an app is choking on bad data it's the apps fault, or your fault for not giving it a steady enough signal. There's no such instance as "The tuner is causing corrupted data" it just not possible. The hardware logic in the analog to digitial converter is the same or near identical in every HD tuner made, depending on chipsets. It works, or doesn't work. ... And if it's not working, fix the signal or what the processed data is being sent to. --Brandon _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
