[mythtv-users] af9015 usb dvb device, 0.23-fixes, uk. 'Stream handler died unexpectedly'

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:07 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> I have a twin-tuner cheapo device bought from Maplin several months ago and
> identified in dmesg as 'TwinHan AzureWave AD-TU700(704J)'.  Sections of
> dmesg that seem to belong to it are given below.
>
> I've found that it often gives good recordings, but can't be relied on to
> do so, so I have used it as my third dvb device.  Consequently it's usually
> scheduled only when several other recordings are also being made and the
> system is fairly busy.  When only one of its tuners is in use the recording
> is usually good, but I've recently had apparently good recordings from the
> second tuner that have just stopped.  Sample backend log below. I think that
> I inverted the 'natural' order of the tuners in mythtv-setup, so this is
> device 0.
>
> Following a suggestion posted recently in a thread dealing with a related
> device (KWorld DVB-T PC160-2T) I've added
> /etc/modprobe.d/no-af9015-remote.conf containing 'options dvb-usb-af9015
> remote=-1'.  I think the recording quality may be better after that, but a
> good recording that suddenly stops isn't ideal.
>
> Is any one successfully using this device?  I think Nick Morrott said he
> had one, but that was very soon after purchase.
>
> I don't have 'this' device, but I have a af9015 usb device which gave me
nightmares for a while until someone suggested downgrading the firmware.

This may be not help, but the firmware was dvb-usb-af9015.fw-4.95.0 (which
is the recommended firmware for my device) but switching to the
dvb-usb-af9015.fw-4.65.0 firmware improved things a great deal.  (Your
mileage may vary ;-])

There were two other versions of the firmware in between these releases, but
I haven't tried either.


Rodd
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