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

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sun Oct 17 11:11:08 UTC 2010


On 17/10/10 11:51, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:07 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
> <mailto: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
>

Yes, thanks for this.  In the absence of any other replies (perhaps 
because of a couple of noise storms on the list shortly after I first 
posted?) I guess it's worth a shot.  I think I first used 4.95 with 
less-than-ideal results, but don't think I've used 4.65 before.

John P


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