<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 15, 2018, at 11:50 AM, Allen Edwards <<a href="mailto:allen.p.edwards@gmail.com" class="">allen.p.edwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I changed the name of my thread because the video card update problems are gone (thanks to the help from all of you) and I am only left with glitches in the recordings. I have done a lot of experimentation to try and isolate the problem but am at a loss as to what is going on.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is an example of a bad glitch <a href="http://l-36.com/mythtv.jpg" target="_blank" class="">http://l-36.com/mythtv.jpg</a></div><div class="">Here is an example of a small one blown up to show it <a href="http://l-36.com/mythtv4.jpg" target="_blank" class="">http://l-36.com/mythtv4.jpg</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can use the hdhomerun_config and hdhomerun_config_gui utilities to see the status of the stream using the following example:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will want to use the gui to set the channel to be verified and then do the following:</div><div class="">
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<pre class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'CourierNewPSMT'" class="">hdhomerun_config FFFFFFFF save /tuner0 capture.ts
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-- Video statistics --
23323 packets recieved, 2 network errors, 1 transport errors, 1 sequence errors
</span></pre><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: 700" class="">Advanced: </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'" class="">A filename of “null” indicates no file should be created, allowing the use of the save
command as a diagnostic tool.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-weight: 700" class="">Advanced: </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Verdana'" class="">“-” may be used as a filename to indicate standard output, allowing the save
command to be used as a pipe on supported platforms.
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<pre class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'CourierNewPSMT'" class="">eg: hdhomerun_config FFFFFFFF save /tuner0 - | vlc -
</span></pre><div class="column"><br class=""></div>The dev document can be downloaded from SiliconDust, and has much more information that can be had using the utility.</div><div class="column"><br class=""></div><div class="column">Something you can also check using the hdhomerun_config_gui is the signal strength and quality live.</div><div class="column"><br class=""></div><div class="column">I have found these tools very handy.</div><div class="column"><br class=""></div><div class="column">
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