Sorry, I'll try to make this as understandable as I can. I was using your test script when getting these errors. I edited it to put H21 on my main server. I think <div>the secondary server may have a tuner in it with different firmware because it wouldn't work with H21, only H20. This line repeated many times:<div>
<br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">2010-02-27 14:07:26.343 [mpeg2video @ 0x69406c0]Missing picture start code</span><br><br></div>
<div>Then the rest of what I pasted above referring to the excessive channel retries. It is so strange how both tuners will have the same behavior. They are using the same </div><div>usb->serial connectors and same null modem type. When it works it is a great thing to see. But when it fails, it fails miserably and I have a hard time getting it </div>
<div>to even watch live tv.</div><div><br></div><div>When I took the "setup_channel" argument out it did as you said and recorded the wrong channel on many occasions. I put the argument back in with the test script </div>
<div>and changed the box type on the main server. During the Olympics, believe I only had three failures with this setup.</div><div><br></div><div>Could both my cards be going bad? If they are is there some other card you can recommend? I don't need an HD tuner card as I understand directv won't let </div>
<div>me record HD. I hope to get to a point where this will work again. I am sure I had it working like a top at one time before the directv stbs went out on me. At </div><div>that time I was using centos. Though I had other issues with the OS, they weren't related to changing channels. The kernel I used then didn't include ivtv built </div>
<div>in so I always had to install the module with an kernel update. I hope this isn't the case, but I wonder if mythbuntu's kernel is just buggy with mythtv.</div><div><br></div><div>I will try snagging a small tv I can test with. I'm pretty sure that won't be a problem. So what I'd need to do is plug the tv into the pvr350 and see what happens </div>
<div>when changing channels?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks very much for your help.</div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:16 PM, David Gesswein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djg@pdp8online.com">djg@pdp8online.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The first failure Canceled recording (Recorder Failed): XXI Winter doesn't<br>
seem to have any obvious error. I would recommend checking<br>
/var/log/messages for any errors around the failed recording time and<br>
dmesg output. I'm unlikely to be able to help with this one.<br>
<br>
The second error Excessive channel change retries, commanded 202 got 247<br>
is the script failing. It commanded the box to switch to 202 but it stayed<br>
on 247.<br>
<br>
Did you test the modified script with box_type H21? That uses a<br>
different command so may work.<br>
<br>
Also at one point you were testing the script without the setup channel.<br>
Did that always work or did you sometimes get the wrong channel?<br>
<br>
If the H21 doesn't fix the problem is their any way you can directly<br>
hook a TV to your box so you can see what is happening during a failed<br>
channel change?<br>
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