[mythtv-users] HD-3000 recording corruption

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 30, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Patrick Ouellette wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:50:06PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Steven Ihde wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 07:22, Craig Partin wrote:
>>>> This is the first time I have been stumped in over two years of
>>>> mythtv
>>>> use.  I got my HD-3000 working just fine tuning QAM stations over
>>>> cable in myth.  The system works flawlessly and reliably except  
>>>> that
>>>> QAM recordings get trashed when anything else is happening on the
>>>> system.  It records beautifully when nothing else is happening.   
>>>> This
>>>> happens on all channels, HD and SD.  I can playback 1080i content
>>>> with
>>>> XVMC just fine, even with bob.
>
> Sounds like interference getting into the HD-3000 from the video card.
> Try moving them farther apart, electrically shielding the card(s), and
> make sure if you have a jumper cable between the sound card and the  
> HD-3000
> that it is either removed or has RFI protection (a couple of turns  
> through
> a torroidal core at each end).
>

Not an alltogether bad notion, but the same symptom in two different  
machines,and it happens without the audio cable (which you don't need  
for QAM).

I will look into it further though, thanks.

73s