[mythtv-users] Hauppage Nova-TD and failed recordings
Another Sillyname
anothersname at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 17 08:10:26 UTC 2013
Can we all be clear that we're talking about the USB version of the TD here
and not the PCI TD 500 card, having spent a LOT of time recently trying to
get the USB version working properly I've come to realise in mailing list
postings and forum comments sometimes people end up talking about their
experience with the other card.
Out of interest is there anyone on the list who's used/using the USB Dual
TD in the Crystal Palace transmitter area?
If you're still using it do you have to use any attenuators or other bodges
to get the tuning to work properly and produce a constantly stable device?
Which version of the Kernel are you using?
What does:-
modinfo dvb_usb_dib0700 report back?
If other people have tried to use this device has your experience been it's
not worked in myth but has worked with other linux apps (vlc, mplayer,
etc.....)
Thanks in advance.
On 16 April 2013 22:57, Martin Moores <moores.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 April 2013 22:22, Edward Peckham <edward at peckham.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> Simon,
>>
>> I feel your pain.
>>
>> On Tuesday 16 Apr 2013 18:41:19 Simon Waldman wrote:
>> >
>> > All has worked for some years. Since I upgraded to 0.26, I've been
>> getting
>> > quite a lot of failed (0-byte) recordings - perhaps 30% of all
>> recordings
>> > fail. These only ever happen on the Nova-TD stick. They *seem* to happen
>> > more on one multiplex than others, but they are not restricted to that
>> > multiplex (and the favouring of that one that could be random chance /
>> my
>> > imagination).
>> My Nova TD stopped being reliable when I upgraded to 0.25. Do you know
>> what
>> you were on before the 0.26 upgrade?
>>
>> > I've tried deleting each of the dual tuners in turn to see if one of
>> them is
>> > dud. No use. I've tried putting up the various timeouts and tuning
>> delays,
>> > no use. I've tried changing Fast Tuning between "Live TV Only" and
>> > "Always", but it made no difference.
>> I've failed to find a working magic incantation myself. I have found that
>> tuning with tzap always works, but unfortunately strace does not decode
>> the
>> structures passed to the v4l frontend ioctl() call, so I've not seen if
>> there's any difference in how mythbackend does the tune.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>
> I was getting the same with my Nova TD tuner. What fixed it for me was
> ensuring EIT was only enabled on one of it's dual tuners, if it was enabled
> on both, then recordings failed, but just on one and its been perfect
> since. Apart from when it disappears completely and the Linux system can't
> see it at all until I have rebooted 10 times!!
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
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