[mythtv] problem with HDTV in Australia

[Kalle Pokki]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:

>Hi. I'm attempting to watch HDTV recorded in Australia (on DVB-T).
>The backend logs show that a test program was recorded fine (no DVB
>errors reported). However when I play back the recording, the frontend
>logs MPEG decoder errors continuously.
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I was also having strange problems recently, apparently because of a 
broken hard disk. It gave S.M.A.R.T errors for a long time, but at first 
I just ignored them. Later the playback was still mostly fine, but 
seeking in a recording did not work at all. The total length of the 
recording changed a lot every time I tried to jump forward or backward. 
It didn't jump as much as it should have, and after a few jumps it 
didn't jump at all anymore. Mythweb was also unable to generate the 
thumbnail pictures anymore.

Later on the disk of course crashed, and I couldn't boot anymore... I 
think I had similar errors in my myth logs. The messages log had this 
kind of warnigs before the crash

Jul 10 13:07:52 kp smartd[4284]: Device: /dev/hda, 4 Currently 
unreadable (pending) sectors
Jul 10 13:37:52 kp smartd[4284]: Device: /dev/hda, 4 Currently 
unreadable (pending) sectors