[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1356: DTVRecorder::FindKeyframes in 0.19 causes video gltiches in firewire recordings

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/27/06, Jim Westfall <jwestfall at surrealistic.net> wrote:
> Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote [02.27.06]:
> > On 2/26/06, Jim Westfall <jwestfall at surrealistic.net> wrote:
> > > Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote [02.26.06]:
> > > > On 2/25/06, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Ahh, that makes more sense than 1000 TS packets. I would think that
> > > > > 2MB would work most of the time on a reasonably fast machine as long
> > > > > as you were only recording one or two HD stream[s]. But it should
> > > > > probably be resized according to
> > > > >    gContext->GetNumSetting("HDRingbufferSize")...
> > > > > So that slower machines and more recorders can be handled.
> > > > >
> > > > > And we really need to report when the packets are dropped so that people
> > > > > know to increase this setting. Some playback problems look identical to
> > > > > dropped packets on the recording side do, to the typical user.
> > > > >
> > > > > -- Daniel
> > > >
> > > > I get tons of the firewire glitches with the new method, so if anyone
> > > > wants to send me a patch for me to gather data let me know.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Steve
> > >
> > >
> > > http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1397
> > >
> > > jim
> >
> > applied to fixes-9163. Should I just tune to a channel on my firewire
> > tuner and send the log output after a few glitches appear?
> >
> > --
> > Steve
>
> Can you confirm that is says 'firewire: total dropped packets 0' when you
> stop live tv?
>
> Would you mind trying the latest firewirerecorder.* from svn and apply the
> above patch?
>
> jim

SVN 9173 I do get the
firewire: total dropped packets 0
when exiting liveTV.

I'm starting to wish there was a menu option to choose the tuner
instead of having to loop through since firewire is not the first
tuner.

--
Steve