[mythtv-users] Hardware check

mythtv-users mythtv-users at fastdruid.co.uk
Sun Oct 22 12:02:46 UTC 2006


>>> also had frequent crashes using this card - it seems to sporadically
>>> experience disconnects between the USB bridge and the tuner (though
>>> both
>>> are on the same card), which the DVB drivers don't handle very
>>> gracefully (a reboot is needed to get myth working again).
>>>
>>
>> Ah, that's not so good, anyone got any suggestions for a 1/2 height DVB
>> card?
>>
> The card works fine if you disable EIT scanning. So if you get your
> listings from another source, you're fine. The problems seem to be
> related to EIT scanning not closing file handles after completion in
> certain cases.

Ah, not quite so bad then, I've not been using EIT scanning because with a
mix of analogue and DVB sources the DVB EIT was picking up different
program information and was recording double of everything on the
overlapping 5 channels.

Thanks

David




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