[mythtv-users] HD-3000 recording corruption
Jesse Guardiani
jesse at wingnet.net
Thu Mar 30 21:48:10 UTC 2006
Steven Ihde wrote:
> The interesting thing is that it doesn't appear to have anything to do with
> data transfer to the hard drive. Rather the HD-3000 actually loses the
> signal lock. I can verify this by shutting everything down (mythbackend,
> etc.), and running "azap" to tune a channel. As azap prints status lines,
> they all show excellent signal strength in the range fd00-ff00, and
> FE_HAS_LOCK. As soon as I start playing any video with xine, the signal
> strength drops, and FE_HAS_LOCK disappears. The larger the xine window, the
> worse the problem. If I shrink the xine window down to a tiny size,
> FE_HAS_LOCK comes back and the signal strength improves. The amount of
> signal loss seems directly related to the size of the video window. It's not
> related to data transfer that I can see -- it behaves the same whether I
> simply tune the card without recording, or if I use "azap -r" and
> "cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0" to record.
>
Could this be a PSU issue? Is the 6200 drawing too much power, to the
point where the HD-3000 can't
function?
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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net
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