Hi list,
I have been using a tt1500, a saa7146 PCI DVB-T tuner for well over a
year now. Running gentoo 64bit tracking the ~amd64 branch (that only get
bi-monthly upgraded) I've been always more or less up to date.
This card however has never properly worked. I've been running vdr 1.6.*
since that is what's stably in gentoo. Whilst writing this down I
realized I still have to test me-tv to double check my findings.
Some background info. Here in NL we have 4 FTA channels and about 20
conax encrypted channels that the CAM in the CI module decrypts. I have
two smartcards, of which one is only in active use at the moment.
When changing channels between the FTA channels, the first 'bug' occurs.
Somtimes (not predictably or anything, about 50% of the channel changes)
sound stutters the first few seconds, upto 30 seconds sometimes. It
sounds almost if the sound is being fed through some sort of PWM, that
slowly catches up. So first you hear 1 second of audio, 3 seconds of
nothing, then 1 second of audio again, then 2 seconds of nothing etc.
This audio delay is random. E.g. sometimes it stutters for about 30
seconds while it has a hard time to catch up, other times the audio
needs only 2 or 3 seconds to catch up. Very occasionally it instantly
works right. The stuttering appears to be worse on encrypted channels.
Encrypted channels has the additional annoyance, that quote often, an
entire channel is not available. That is, every channel in its bouqet.
Simply waiting on that channel for about a minute or two, mysteriously
brings the unavailable channel up. Allthough it 'feels' like changing
channel helps this fix faster, it's just a placebo effect if you ask me ;)
I cannot safely say that the same skipping happens to the video, I have
not noticed it really. I have checked signal strength etc and though the
strength is only at 55%, the SNR is at 99% quite stable and the BER
(unrecoverable errors? are at 0). If for some reason there is
interferance, bad whether, blocked antenna, then the BER goes up
followed by distorted imagery and with really bad signal bad audio as
well (humans are more sensitive to bad audio iirc).
I'm not sure what to profile, where to enable debugging, what logs to
check or what to do to help 'fix' this.
lspci output:
00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH DVB T-1500
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
Memory at f0162000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Kernel drive in use: budget_ci dvb
/proc/interrupts
18: 499 107651 IO-APIC-fasteoi saa7146 (0)
Tuner: tda10046h dvb-t, firmware revision 20
Thank you for your time,
oliver
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