[mythtv-users] Charlie Rose via PVR-350

[Mercury Morris]

On 9/20/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:05:32 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 
> >Mercury Morris wrote:
> >
> >> OK. Thanks for satisfying my curiousity.
> >>
> >> Since Charlie Rose is the only show that exhibits the out-of-sync
> >> behaviour, I felt it was worth asking if anyone else had seen it.
> >>
> >> There are quite a few additional tests that I can run on the MythTV
> >> systems I have access to, and I can move the Charlie Rose recordings
> >> to other, non-MythTV systems, and see if they play out-of-sync there, 
> too.
> >>
> >> If I do eventually come up with a reasonable answer, I'll post it here.
> >>
> >Could this be a problem with your system (instead of a problem with
> >Myth) that others are seeing where running mythfilldatabase (or wget of
> >any kind) while recording causes an IOBOUND situation that prevents
> >information from being written properly and causes an A/V sync offset?
> >In other words, does Charlie Rose happen to record around the time your
> >mythfilldatabase runs?
> 
> Another wild guess out of right field....Do you have the box turn itself
> on to do this recording? And perchance do you have some older (especially
> SCSCI) hardware in the box?
> 
> I have an old SCSI drive which I used for ripping some CD's. On playback I
> get weird stutters in the music. On some music the stutter was almost
> regular... Long story short, it turned out that the drive was doing some
> sort of thermal recalibration during that session. When I left the box up
> for 24 hours, the recalibration stutter basically disappeared. I wonder if
> you are seeing a similar sort of change if your system is still warming up
> while this program is being recorded.
> 
> I've never heard of Charlie Rose, but since you record every day, could it
> be an afternoon program and you bring the box up just for this
> recording...? Just a thought...
> 
> Not a bad scenario, good thinking. However, the box is built with all-new
components, no old SCSI's. In a previous post, I have noted what my
current thinking is on the most likely cause. With a little luck, I should 
have
more information tomorrow and will post the findings here.

"...never heard of Charlie Rose" - Hey, at least we know your not a liberal
left-winger !

Thanks for posting your thoughts on the out-of-sync troubles.

-- 
MM
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