Hi Andy, thanks for your reply. On Saturday 16 January 2016 23:16:41 you wrote: > Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a Pinnacle PCTV DVB-S2 Stick (461e) and did connect it to a > > cubox-i running openelec. > > > > The known issues on > > > > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Pinnacle_PCTV_DVB-S2_Stick_%28461e%29 > > > > seem to be gone (at least I did not hit them). > > > > Instead there seems to be another (new?) issue, that HD streams have > > artefacts, see > > > > http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=220129 > > > > and > > > > https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/19582?r=19584#message-19584 > > > > I tried to add that to the wiki, but my registration attempt was > > rejected. > > > > Can somebody with write access to > > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Pinnacle_PCTV_DVB-S2_Stick_%28461e%29 > > please add the new issue? > > > > Certainly any hint how to solve this issue is welcome. > > I added a comment on the tvh forum - will paste here as well in case > anyone is interested - > > You could try spinning up you cpu(s) with > > nice -19 dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null I added four of these, but if at all then there was only a minor impact. > > If you have multiple cores maybe start more than one. > > I have a couple of DVB-T2 PCTV sticks and got some usb/power save/xhci > issues on my h/w. > > Above would mostly fix. Rather than do that I found that the issue was > far less if I disabled USB3 in bios to avoid using the xhci driver. The cubox-i has no USB 3 port and no bios :-/ > Of course your issue may be totally different - but it's worth a try. > Your symptoms do point to ts packet loss - which I know from my > experience can be at usb level. There are posts on here from the past > where people with PCIE cards also had to do similar. Sounds reasonable. Can I enable logs which would make these drops explicit? Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/ -- 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
