[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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