Thanks Daniel, Can you tell me what kernel version you are using? Also are you using vanilla kernel v4l or chris pascoes tree or the v4l tree for drivers? So I take it you don't get any "audio blips" throughout the recording ? Any chance of a longer TZAP run as well? Thanks in advance! Cheers D. On 13 July 2010 19:53, Daniel O'Connor <darius@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 13/07/2010, at 17:24, David Shirley wrote: >> I am having reception issues with this particular card, the problem >> manifests itself with missing video frames and popping sounds on the >> audio streams. >> >> As far as I can tell it only some channels do it, "Nine" and its >> multiplexes are the worst for it > > I have the same card an It Works For Me (tm). > > However I had serious issues with mythtv when I upgraded recently, however mplayer seemed fine and it turned out to be a DB problem (I think it was a bit of voodoo getting it working..) >> >> You can see that TZAP every now and reports some unc/ber: >> >> crystal:/usr/share/dvb/dvb-t# tzap -a 0 -c 0 "Nine Digital HD" >> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' >> reading channels from file '0' >> tuning to 191625000 Hz >> video pid 0x0200, audio pid 0x0000 >> status 00 | signal 0b28 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 000012c8 | >> status 1e | signal b64c | snr dede | ber 00000000 | unc 000013ce | FE_HAS_LOCK > > > [mythtv 19:22] ~ >tzap -a 1 "Nine HD" > using '/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0' > reading channels from file '/home/myth/.tzap/channels.conf' > tuning to 191625000 Hz > video pid 0x0201, audio pid 0x0000 > status 00 | signal c520 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00003691 | > status 1e | signal c4a8 | snr aaaa | ber 00000000 | unc 000036f0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > status 1e | signal c4f0 | snr abab | ber 00000000 | unc 000036f0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > status 1e | signal c4e4 | snr abab | ber 00000000 | unc 000036f0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > status 1e | signal c4d8 | snr acac | ber 00000000 | unc 000036f0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > status 1e | signal c50c | snr aaaa | ber 00000000 | unc 000036f0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > status 1e | signal c4fc | snr abab | ber 00000792 | unc 000036f0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > status 1e | signal c540 | snr acac | ber 00000792 | unc 000036f0 | FE_HAS_LOCK > >> Hopefully someone can help or give me instructions on how to debug... > > Dunno sorry :( > However if you need some comparison stuff run let me know :) > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html