On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:29 +0000, Nicolas Will wrote: > Well... > > You can now laugh at me, the supposedly problem-free user... > > I managed to get my nova-t-500 to lose a tuner too! > > MythTV was recording on tuner 1. > > I was channel surfing on tuner 2. > > After flipping through a few channels, I got a black screen. > > I looked at the logs. MythTV is complaining that the file it uses to > watch TV (in fact you never watch the stream from the card, MythTV > records the channel in a file, then plays that file) is invalid. > > You bet it is invalid, it's mostly not there, or with a size of zero. > > I guess that the tuner became non-responsive and thus outputs nothing. > > Getting out of "LiveTV" and coming back does not fix it. Trying to go > to > another channel serves no purpose, MythTV must be desperately trying > to > get any sort of response from the tuner before sending it any new > command. > > That was a long "me too", but a "me too" all the same. > > Dang ! > > Oh, my reception quality that used to be ugly has been fixed. I am now > a > user of a 26dB gain masthead amplifier. My signal strength took a 25% > improvement, BER and UNC are zero on all channels. Still using the > internal LNA, though; I haven't tried doing without it. Ah... It looks like only ITV4 is problematic, even if the other channels on the multiplex are fine. Maybe a different problem, but the tuner is really lost until a reboot all the same. I have tried without the LNA, same difference. but it's an opportunity to measure signal and BER without it... Anybody know about any ITV4 problem on the UK-Durris transmitter? Nico _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
