[mythtv] Problems with the new EIT code

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Tue May 30 15:03:33 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 01:15 +0300, Otto Kolsi wrote:
> Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> > Lots of these messages indicates some problem with the TS->PES
> > conversion. I assume most of these are on the channel without
> > working EIT?
> 
> Yes, I think most are. But it seems that some are also on another 
> multiplex/channel.
> 
> > Logs aren't going to help with this, a 30 second capture of the
> > raw TS stream from that channel, including the EIT tables, is
> > needed. Then a developer can step through the data manually to
> > see where things go wrong.
> 
> What I've done is that I've watched myth logs and when I see lots of 
> repeated PES packet errors, I've captured stream with 'cat' directly 
> from the DVB device. Is this anywhere near the correct procedure?  I've 
> verified with TSReaderLite -program (Windows) that these files should be 
> valid TS streams. If this is okay, I'll make a ticket to the Trac with 
> these attachments.

'cat' is a fine way to capture this info.

-- Daniel



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