[mythtv-users] HD MPEG problems

[Tom Lichti]

John Overchuk wrote:
> I'm having problems with my HD recordings from my comcast cable.  I am using 
> an HD Homerun.  I am getting lots of artifacts accompanied by "chirping". 
> The log spits out tons of these messages:
>
> http://pastebin.ca/746235
>
> I could live with it, but it causes my frontend to crash every 5-10 minutes. 
> Any ideas on why this is happening?  Is it just poor cable signal to my 
> house?  I think I'm going to have a tough time convincing  my cable company 
> that their line quality is messing up my Myth server. 
>   
Interestingly enough, I'm seeing the exact same thing, but with OTA HD 
with my HDHomeRun. I noticed that on my backend and frontend there were 
a number of these today:

Oct 22 21:37:48  kernel: skge eth0: Link is down.
Oct 22 21:37:56  kernel: skge eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full 
duplex, flow control tx and rx

I moved the ethernet cables for those two servers to another switch, and 
haven't seen any more of them. Of course, a bunch of recordings are 
already pretty much hosed, not sure what I can do about that...

Anyway, check your network connection, but if this is from QAM on your 
cable line, it probably isn't that.

Tom