[mythtv-users] Error: offset>181

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 08:42:30 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>More often than not, I fail to get a lock using mythtv. However, when I
>start caffeine afterwards and tune to that channel, I get a lock without
>problems. Subsequently starting mythtv again allows me to tune to that
>channel, as well as switch to different channels, so I assume mythtv does
>not correctly initialize my tuner.  The error in the log says: 'Error:
>offset>181, pes length & current cannot be queried'.
>
>I run mythbuntu 14.04.1 and have a DVBSky S950C PCIe. I tried disabling EIT
>collection, but that did not help.
>
> More details:
>
>dmesg | grep dvb
>
>[   11.000016] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
>
>[   11.000019] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
>
>[   11.296398] m88ds3103_load_firmware: Waiting for firmware upload
>(dvb-fe-ds3103.fw)...

Have you checked that you have the dvb-fe-ds3103.fw firmware file
installed?  It is not installed by default in my Mythbuntu 12.04.
Tuners can seem to run properly without a firmware file, but strange
things happen.

  http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVBSKY_S950C

>[   12.532031] Registered IR keymap rc-dvbsky
>
>[   20.009008] dvb_ca adapter 0: DVB CAM detected and initialised
>successfully