[mythtv-users] Failed HD-PVR recordings

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Jeremy Thornhill wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 at 19:23:39 Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm having a problem with random recordings failing with my 2 HD-PVR
>> boxes.
>
> Brad,
>
> I've personally been seeing a similar issue, running 0.21 fixes with
> HD-PVR patches applied (I'm aware that I'm doomed to minimal support).
> I'm using kernel 2.6.28 with a recent copy of the v4l-dvb drivers from
> their source repository. I'm running the firmware that came loaded on
> my (rev 2) HDPVR, since I believe firmware updating requires Windows
> at this point (please correct me if I'm wrong).

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Yes, I believe you need a Windows machine to update the firmware.  
Luckily my son has one I could use.

> I'm thinking (hoping?) that this is a firmware issue, and all I need
> to do is track down a Windows box and update the thing, but it sounds
> like your problems are very similar so I thought I'd chime in.

I have the latest firmware and I'm not sure how to get an earlier  
version to see if it would fix the problem so I don't know if  
upgrading will help you much.

Now that I have switched over to 720p all the time I am getting many  
more successful recordings that the frontend will play back (still  
some failures), but TONS of errors in my logs. Along with the ones  
reported earlier in this thread (Stop(): Not running. / MPEGRec(/dev/ 
video3) Error: Device error detected), I'm now getting:

2009-07-07 08:06:11.731 [libfaad @ 0xb6f82e10]faac: frame decoding  
failed: Invalid number of channels
2009-07-07 08:06:11.832 [libfaad @ 0xb6f82e10]faac: frame decoding  
failed: Bitstream value not allowed by specification

By "TONS" I mean enough to fill my hard drive if I don't clear my log  
files every couple of days (13GB of these errors since yesterday).

-Brad