Peter Maersk-Moller wrote: > Now the reason data was not read fast enough from the card > was not lack of idle cpu, but rather an issue with NFS. > I had modified dvbstream (with code from dvbtext) to > save texttv/videotext pages into files. Since my DVB > receivers are diskless, NFS was used. For reasons still > unknown to me, that delayed dvstreams reading cycle > every know and then causing a loss of data leading > to a jump in PTS. > > Johannes, is there an IOCTL call I can make to detect loss of data > on a DVB receiver card ? dvbstream does very poor (no?) checking of errors returned by the read and write commands. This is probably the first place to look. Dave.
