<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Ronald Frazier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ron@ronfrazier.net">ron@ronfrazier.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Michael T. Dean<br>
<<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Try increasing your tuning and signal timeouts using mythtv-setup's<br>
> Capture Card section. Don't be afraid to try something like 7000/10000<br>
> ms (and if it helps, you can lower them down to where they stop working).<br>
<br>
</div>I wouldn't recommend getting too aggressive with lowering the<br>
timeouts, as my experience with cablecards is that occasionally they<br>
can take a bit longer to complete tuning. This is especially true if<br>
you have a tuning adapter. So you could lower it to where it seems to<br>
be safe and then occasionally have a failed recording. I'd think it<br>
would be better to play it safe. Is there really much to be gained by<br>
lowering the timeouts (other than getting an error back a little<br>
quicker if you are watching livetv)?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Ron Frazier<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>FWIW I'm seeing almost the same behavior (Charter in Massachusetts). Recordings will randomly fail sometimes and work other times, and I end up with a bunch of 0 byte recordings. The other night I went to watch the 10 o'clock news at about 10:15 but my recording was 0 bytes. I went to live tv and was able to tune into the same channel, which is clear QAM (Fox 25 in Boston, channel 786). <br>
<br>I have seen this behavior with live tv but it is much more rare. Occasionally it takes 3 or 4 times to lock into a station. I set up the three tuners individually because the Wiki said it was needed for the third tuner to show up. --version tells me I am running <br>
<br>MythTV Version : v0.24.2-4-g10d5624<br>MythTV Branch : fixes/0.24<br><br></div></div><br>