Nicolas Will wrote: > As much as I understand your position, where it's coming from, and the > reasoning behind it (and I'm not necessarily against it, trust me on > that), blaming it all on the closed parts is maybe just as bad as > blaming a USB vendor or open source coders and giving up. It seems to be able to handle one or two recordings, then on the third it falls flat on its face. I told it to record Jurassic Park, and as soon as the recording was due to start, I got this in dmesg: Mar 3 21:00:03 dragon kernel: [51071.390905] mt2060 I2C write failed Mar 3 21:00:03 dragon kernel: [51071.390907] >>> 03 14 04 07 ff ff Mar 3 21:00:03 dragon kernel: [51071.390910] ep 0 write error (status = -19, len: 6) Mar 3 21:00:03 dragon kernel: [51071.390912] >>> 03 14 04 08 ff ff Mar 3 21:00:03 dragon kernel: [51071.390915] ep 0 write error (status = -19, len: 6) Mar 3 21:00:03 dragon kernel: [51071.390917] >>> 03 14 04 09 ff f0 Mar 3 21:00:03 dragon kernel: [51071.390920] ep 0 write error (status = -19, len: 6) Mar 3 21:28:02 dragon -- MARK -- Mar 3 21:48:02 dragon -- MARK -- Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54213.772868] modifying (0) streaming state for 0 Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54213.772874] data for streaming: 0 10 Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54213.772876] >>> 0f 00 10 00 Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54213.772881] ep 0 write error (status = -19, len: 4) Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54213.773463] dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T successfully deinitialized and disconnected. Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.011201] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.144020] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.144429] FW GET_VERSION length: 16 Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.144431] cold: 0 Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.144433] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in warm state. Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.144457] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.144638] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T) Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.144806] >>> 0c 08 80 Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.158937] >>> 0c 08 c0 Mar 3 21:52:31 dragon kernel: [54214.178924] >>> 0c 0f 80 [.....] I'm beginning to suspect a power supply or cooling issue; it seems to get worse the longer the machine is running... 15 hours uptime and the T500 is basically dead now, and a reboot only brings it back into the land of the living for a couple of hours at most... Now where did I put that 500W junker that came with the case... -- Phil. | (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | (='.'=) into your signature to help him gain http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | (")_(") world domination. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb