[mythtv] Unknown PID errors from the DVBRecorder

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Fri Aug 25 13:36:10 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 13:42 +0300, Otto Kolsi wrote:
> I just noticed that all or almost all DVB recordings produce lots and 
> lots of "Unknown PID 0x..." errors to the backend log. Recordings are 
> fine, so is live-tv and EIT, only problem is the huge amount of logs 
> that are coming.
> 
> This might have started to occur after #10860 but I'm not sure and 
> haven't tested it. I've made normal distcleans and rebuilt the backend.
> 
> I've attached a backend log that shows this behaviour. First the 
> recording is started normally, then little bit later the problem kicks 
> in. Can anyone explain what is happening?
> 
> I have one TechniSat AirStar 2 DVB-T card and kernel 2.6.16 in use (FC4).

It's a bug in the pid filter limit code introduced in [10860], I've
attached a possible fix to ticket #1970. Can you give it a try?

BTW This bug should have no real effect on scheduled recordings,
other than printing out a stream of warnings, but will make LiveTV
channel flipping slower.

-- Daniel



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