[mythtv-users] Live TV issues with 0.25 and HD-PVR

[Matt Goebel]

So deleting and and re-adding all my capture cards (and truncating the capturecard table to reset the cardid auto incrementing key back to 1, hate odd numbering tuners) I see major improvements in Live TV with my HD-PVR.  I won't call it solved just yet but all my tests so far have been successful.  I was able to get into live TV without an issue and all my channel changes including SD, 720p, and 1080i channels changes (and back) worked without getting dropped once.  Channel changes were also noticeably much faster.  I'm assuming that's mostly due to the new 1.7.1.30059 firmware I loaded along with the 3.3.5 kernel with required driver improvements. 

So next question is why?  There are two things that I can see that changed: 1. The timeout value was previously set to 3000, re-adding it defaulted to 12000, 2. I changed from RCA sound to SPDIF (I'd switched long ago because of some channels occationally dropping sound long ago, seems ok now).  I really don't see what else deleting could possibility fix, it's just a few DB records being deleted and re-added which should make zero difference.  Is there something else I'm missing?

----- Original Message -----
> 
> 
> > 
> > I had a similar, very frustrating experience on upgrade to
> > 0.25-fixes
> > with both an HR-1600 and an HDHR3-US.
> > 
> > I too gave serious consideration to down grading back to 0.24 for
> > all
> > the reasons you mentioned and was very confused by some posters
> > saying 0.25 was great for livetv and others saying it sucked.
> > 
> > Then I completely reinstalled my inputs (HR-1600 and HDHR3-US) and
> > that immediately fixed the problem. Now 0.25 is the best live tv
> > experience with Myth we have ever had.
> > 
> > So if you have not already done so, completely remove (Delete All
> > Cards) your HDPVR and reinstall from scratch.
> > 
> > I hope you have the same good results I have had.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> > 
> > PS: The HDHR3-US was a new purchase from Woot for $75 US. (Thanks
> > to
> > the OP for that tip!). And I see now what a difference new
> > technology can make. The HDHR is better all around (more sensitive,
> > fast at channel changes etc).Myth is a much more enjoyable
> > experience now. The purchase of the HDHR was that caused me to
> > reinstall all the TV capture devices.
> > 
> 
> I did that, with no change.
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