[mythtv-users] High analog recording failure rate

[Gerald Schepens]

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 14:45 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> <fixed top posting>
> 
> On 07/19/2011 01:37 PM, Gerald Schepens wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:34 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >> On 06/28/2011 06:48 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> >>> On 28/06/11 00:00, Gerald Schepens wrote:
> >>>> Ever since upgrading Fedora to F14 from F13, I have had a high rate of
> >>>> recording failures.  I have two capture cards, both analog Hauppauge --
> >>>> a PVR 250 and a PVR 350.  (Total of 3 tuners.)
> >>> Eh? A PVR-250 and a PVR-350 each have one tuner. Only a PVR-500 has a dual tuner
> >>> setup.
> >> Perhaps he has multiple inputs configured on one of them (and really
> >> means "total of 3 inputs" instead of "total of 3 cards").  If so, see
> >> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9866 , Gerald, and specifically,
> >> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9866#comment:1 and
> >> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9866#comment:3 .
> > I read the attached tip.  I took this to mean I should set up recording
> > groups on a per-tuner basis, which I interpreted should result in a
> > group for the 350, and (here I am less sure of myself) two other groups
> > for the 500 which has two tuners.  I still get a fairly high failure
> > rate of recordings although I feel from my small sample size that it may
> > be a smaller proportion of the total than before.
> >
> > Still, I'm not entirely sure that tip applied to my situation because
> > the mistuned recordings (if that's exactly what's going on) are messed
> > up from beginning to end, and the tip appeared to be about keeping a
> > second recording from messing the tuner up during a recording in
> > progress.
> 
> Ah, so you have a PVR-500 and not a PVR-250, as you said in your 
> original post.  The PVR-500 /does/ have 2 tuners/encoders, so it sounds 
> like you should not be using input groups (assuming you've configured 
> only one input per card).
> 
> You did set up the PVR-500 as 2 separate capture cards, right--you 
> didn't just connect a video source to Tuner 0 and Tuner 1 on the same 
> card or something like that?  In mythtv-setup, you should see 3 capture 
> cards and in the Input Connections area, you should have one input 
> connected on each of the 3 cards.
> 
> Mike
> __________________________________

That is correct -- there are three cards configured. one card is the
350, one is the 500 tuner 1, and one is the 500's tuner 2.  
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