[mythtv-users] Mytv Unreliable

[Paul Raison]

This sounds like a signal problem to me. Have you enabled the on-board 
amplifier on the 500-T? You need to put the appropriate module parameter 
to enable it. Once you have checked that, do a channel scan. I had one 
channel the other day which failed to create the file as you described, 
and doing a channel scan cured the problem.

Paul

Tim Sawyer wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a combined front end / back end, nvidia graphics card, Athlon 64 X2 
> 4400, Nova T-500 dual DVB-T tuner card, 1Gb RAM.  Root filesystem on a 
> different disk to the recorded programmes.
>
> I was ready to junk mythtv this time last week and go back to using a normal 
> shop-bought digibox. The problems I was having were:
>
> - live TV jerky
> - recorded programs playback blurred in fast pans (particularly noticable on 
> programme credits)
> - unreliability in recording, some tuners just wouldn't record programmes, so 
> when I came to look at the list of recorded programmes, there would be some 
> where it couldn't find the file, and there would be no picture in mythweb.  
> Sometimes the back end process would fail for some reason and then next time 
> I looked at the recorded programmes list it would tell me that the back end 
> was not running.
>
> I have since upgraded to 0.21 which fixed the first two of these problems.  TV 
> quality is now excellent, both in live TV and playing back existing 
> recordings.
>
> However, I've just been bitten by the second problem.  Only one of today's 
> recordings has actually recorded - the rest, mythtv thinks they've been 
> recorded, but there is no file on disk.
>
> I have a strong signal, which is split between TV and myth box using a Y 
> connector.  Normal analogue TV in this configuration is snowy, but digital is 
> ok.  Signal strength reported in the OSD is 58-62% ish.  I have three virtual 
> tuners on each physical one.
>
> Just tried going to live TV, and it couldn't lock into the channel before the 
> timeout.  I rebooted the box, and it suddenly could lock in.  The box has 
> only been up since yesterday evening when I upgraded to 0.21 and then 
> rebooted.
>
> Am I going to have a script a nightly reboot (windows!?) or does anyone have a 
> clue where I should start looking?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim.
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