[mythtv-users] PVR-150/300/500 HVR-1600 commflag workaround

[faginbagin]

On 11/3/2014 1:06 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Justin Alcorn <justin at jalcorn.net <mailto:justin at jalcorn.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:35 PM, faginbagin <mythtv at hbuus.com <mailto:mythtv at hbuus.com>> wrote:
>     > On 11/3/2014 2:11 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>     >> Hoi faginbagin,
>     >>
>     >> Monday, November 3, 2014, 7:20:52 AM, you wrote:
>     >>
>     >
>     > I don't know. AFAICT, the problem has been there since Feb 2013 and was in 0.26, but I believe it should only have affected PVR tuners installed on machines running a 32 bit OS.
>     >
>     > I remember rebuilding seek tables for my recordings when I upgraded from 0.23 to 0.25 or 0.26 (forget which), but I think it was unrelated to this problem as (I seem to recall) there was an issue with digital recordings (especially with changing frame rates), as well as analog recordings made on both 32 bit and 64 bit OSs.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Helen
> 
>     I get the decoding error on every recording, I'm running Ubuntu
>     14.04.1 with MythTV 0.28 on a 64-bit OS.
> 
> 
> I have faginbagin's comm flag patch installed but not the pointer typecast patch (yet). I'm on 64 bit Gentoo, mythtv-0.27.4-something plus a couple patches. I haven't seen decoding errors from my PVR-500 recordings, except the one that always seems to hit at the end of the file. I don't think I had them before the comm flag patch either, though. Comm flagging with the patch does seem to be subjectively a little better--I find I'm reaching for the remote less frequently. Thanks for your work on this.
> 
> Karl

Thanks for testing the comm flag patch. Your experience seems to confirm my suspicion that the typecast patch isn't needed on 64 bit systems. If I were you, I wouldn't bother with it.

Regards,
Helen