[mythtv-users] Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more ideas?

[Timon, John]

I have a pvr350 and am seeing the freezes.  

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John Timon
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-----Original Message-----
From: peloy at chapus.net [mailto:peloy at chapus.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:18 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more ideas?


Curtis Wood <curtis at penguinbrat.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>   I've had a few of these my self - mostly on 0.12 though... The one 
> thing I noticed that improved this 10 fold - was the fine tuning... 
> Fine tune it (the finetune field in the database) until there is way 
> to much color - and then use the adjustments to make it look right... 
> Dont just finetune it untill it looks right though - over tune it, and 
> then use the adjustments - my thinking is that when it is overtuned, 
> it has a very strong signal type of thing...

OK, I am also experiecing the infamous frontend freezes that have been
haunting some of us lately, but I fail to see how fine-tuning would improve
the situation. We need to remember that just recording a show works
perfectly. It's only when watching live TV that the freezes occur. So, if
the signal is not perfect and a fine-tune would fix it, why there are no
problems when recording, but there are when watching live TV? I would think
that if the signal is not perfect you would record a low-quality signal, but
you shouldn't have problems like freezes. Can a developer throw in some
random thoughts about this?

It would also be nice to know what TV tuner card people having this problem
are using. I personally have an ATI TV Wonder VE (bt878-based.) I assume
people with PVR 250s and 350s are not seeing the freezes. Can anyone
confirm?

Cheers,

Eloy.-

> Curtis
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 14:06, Tony Maro wrote:
>> Well, I still can't watch more than 15 minutes or so of live TV 
>> without a freeze.
>> 
>> Here's what the system is:
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