[mythtv] [linux-dvb] Possible EIT corruption using lastest patch for Nova-T 500 (from " dib7000p tuning problem solved")

Janne Grunau janne-dvb at grunau.be
Wed Jan 23 13:24:34 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 22 January 2008 12:41:47 Eduard Huguet wrote:
> Hi,
>     I've just applied the patch and compiled the drivers. I haven't
> tested actual tuning, since I'm not in front of my computer now, but
> this is awaken and idle so MythTV is  currently simply scanning EIT
> data. So well, the following messages has started appearing on my
> mythbackend.log:
>
> 2008-01-22 12:37:50.742 Error: offset>181, pes length & current can
> not be queried
> 2008-01-22 12:37:50.744 EITHelper: Added 2 events
> 2008-01-22 12:37:51.217 EITHelper: Added 7 events
> 2008-01-22 12:37:51.339 330 secs left to system shutdown!
> 2008-01-22 12:37:51.706 EITHelper: Added 3 events
> 2008-01-22 12:37:52.164 EITHelper: Added 4 events
> 2008-01-22 12:37:52.593 EITHelper: Added 2 events
> 2008-01-22 12:37:53.011 EITHelper: Added 1 events
> 2008-01-22 12:37:53.428 EITHelper: Added 1 events
> 2008-01-22 12:37:55.208 Error: offset>181, pes length & current can
> not be queried
> 2008-01-22 12:37:56.982 Error: offset>181, pes length & current can
> not be queried
> 2008-01-22 12:38:01.411 320 secs left to system shutdown!
> 2008-01-22 12:38:11.484 310 secs left to system shutdown!
> 2008-01-22 12:38:15.448 EITHelper: Added 1 events
> 2008-01-22 12:38:21.553 300 secs left to system shutdown!
> 2008-01-22 12:38:26.326 Error: offset>181, pes length & current can
> not be queried
> 2008-01-22 12:38:31.626 290 secs left to system shutdown!
> 2008-01-22 12:38:41.698 280 secs left to system shutdown!
> 2008-01-22 12:38:51.767 270 secs left to system shutdown!
> 2008-01-22 12:38:54.451 Error: offset>181, pes length & current can
> not be queried
>
>
> The error about "offset>181 etc..." is usually due to the card
> receiving corrupt data,

either that or a  not yet found bug in mythtv. Most of them are either 
reception (or dvb driver dependent) I don't see them with my DVB-C 
cards but occasionally on DVB-T.

> and usually causes MySQL table corruption 
> that must be fixed using "myisamchk".

That's very odd. I've never seen or heard something like that. Please 
post more details (mythtv and mysql version, ...) the the mythtv 
developer mailing list.

Janne


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