[mythtv-users] HD-3000 recording corruption

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> 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?
>
I doubt it in my case, the amd64 system I had the problem had a 5200  
video card and a 600-watt PSU.