[mythtv] problem with HDTV in Australia

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:54:14AM -0400, Keith Irwin wrote:
> Okay, what you're describing amounts to this:
> During recording, the stream is being corrupted.

I don't think that's guaranteed to be true, but let's assume it is.
It could be a playback bug.

> Although you say that it's only the video and that the audio is fine,  
> I doubt that.  Audio is a much smaller portion of the stream, so if  

I watched several minutes of it and never heard an error. Please, feel
free to download the sample file rather than speculating!

> There are two possibilities:
> 1) There is signal interference at some point before the demodulator.

No, because those would be picked up as corrupt DVB packets and logged
by the backend, which isn't happening.

Also, the entire transport stream is shipped from the PCI card to the
processor whether I'm recording SDTV or HDTV, and SDTV is working just
fine. (I'm using "budget" type cards so there is no PID filtering in
hardware.)


cheers
Hamish
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