[mythtv-users] Live TV broken?

[james meyer]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014, at 08:46 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Chris Gentle
> <gentlec at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Within the last couple of weeks, my Live TV has started breaking up
>> and distorting really bad. I'm not sure exactly when it started but
>> it has become unwatchable. I do over-the-air only and have really
>> good signal strength (90+) coming into my HD Homerun. I bypassed the
>> HD Homerun and hooked a TV straight to the antenna to verify that the
>> signal is good. No artifacts in the picture at all. Also switched out
>> the HD Homerun with a spare one but that didn't make any difference
>> either. There have been no hardware changes in my myth system in
>> months.
>>
>> I did a completely fresh installation of Mythbuntu 14.04.1 today just
>> to see if that would make a difference but it did not. The problem
>> persists even after a reinstall. I recorded a show, copied the
>> recording to another machine and played back with mplayer. The
>> recording itself is bad. The artifacts show up in the recorded file
>> so I think I've narrowed the problem to the recording phase rather
>> than playback.
>>
>> I'm not sure what to look at next. Any suggestions? Any new known
>> problems with Live TV?
>>
>>
>
> Your subject line focuses on LiveTV, but then you say you record a
> show and it too was bad. Do you mean you did a scheduled recording,
> rather than a livetv recording? If not, try that.
>
> Since the HDHomerun is a network based device, Could there be
> anything on your network using a ton of bandwidth and corrupting
> your recordings? I know I used to get that when I'd do some large
> file transfers between computers on my LAN while my HDHomerun was
> being used to record something, and the recording would end up all
> messed up.
>
>
>
> --
> Ron Frazier
> _________________________________________________
Around .27.3 liveTV took a big dive with the same symptoms as described.
I found that pausing for a seconds changed playback from being
completely unusable to working as it should. Also raising the bitrate
when using the pvr-500 helped.

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