Well, I ran femon (until the card crashed!) and the best I'm seeing is a signal strength of 23%. The indicator bar is always red. I guess this means I need to get someone to look at the aerial. Any comments? -----Original Message----- From: vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian P Challinor Sent: 31 May 2005 07:36 To: 'Klaus Schmidinger's VDR' Subject: RE: VDR Stability The antenna hasn't changed. The DVB-T TV uses the same antenna. It's mounted on my roof and has a direct line-of-site to the transmitter (about 4 miles away and clearly visible). A quick look from a window of a neighbouring tall building shows that the antenna is standing, looks to be correctly aligned. Interesting though. You are the second person to make this suggestion. How would I check the signal? Is this a job for femon? The problem is that I don't fully understand the output from femon so making sense of it is tricky. Adrian -----Original Message----- From: vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karsten M?ller Sent: 31 May 2005 07:26 To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR Subject: Re: VDR Stability Well, UPT errors look like either a weak antenna signal or a driver issue. I got rid of those by amplifying my antenna signal the other day. Does your DVB-T work fine with *the same* antenna ? best regards Karsten On Tuesday 31 May 2005 08:22, Adrian P Challinor wrote: > I have used VDR successfully for about 18 months now, but in the last 2 > months found that stability has gone completely out of the window. It > started when I tried to get the vdrsync code working to burn dvd's (never > successful). > > > > I have a Pentium P4, 2.4Ghz, 512 MB Ram, 2 x 120 GB IDE disks, with an ASUS > motherboard. Cards are a TT-FF DVB-T and a Nebula DVB budget card. I had so > many problems after I did a few kernel changes that I reverted to > rebuilding the system from scratch. I was working on linux 2.6.4, but > listening to the list I upgraded to 2.6.11 on the rebuild. > > > > Things have not got better. > > > > It is impossible to record anything from the budget card, which is VDR's > preferred card. I get so many errors with skipped bytes to sync to a TS > packet it is unwatchable. The recording makes old VCR's look good. Funny > this, because the DVBT enabled television is just fine. > > > > I tried recording just of the TT-FF card. OK, I can only record one signal > at a time, but at least it will be stable, right? Wrong. It's still > unstable. > > > > For example: > > > > May 30 22:50:22 vdr vdr[8931]: timer 1 (1 2240-0045 'Total Recall') set to > event Mon 30.05.2005 22:50-00:35 'Total Recall' > > May 30 22:54:11 vdr vdr[8935]: channel 1 (BBC ONE) event 22:50 'Total > Recall' status 4 May 30 23:03:38 vdr vdr[8935]: channel 3 (BBC THREE) event > 23:00 'Ideal' > > status 4 > > May 30 23:07:45 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '5' > > May 30 23:07:46 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '4' > > May 30 23:11:01 vdr vdr[8931]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 47508 - > accepted May 30 23:11:01 vdr vdr[8931]: closing SVDRP connection May 30 > 23:16:50 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '5' > > May 30 23:18:30 vdr last message repeated 5 times May 30 23:18:51 vdr last > message repeated 2 times May 30 23:21:02 vdr vdr[8931]: connect from > 127.0.0.1, port 43811 - accepted May 30 23:21:02 vdr vdr[8931]: closing > SVDRP connection May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type > '5' > > May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: initiating emergency exit May 30 23:25:15 > vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '4' > > May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: initiating emergency exit May 30 23:25:15 > vdr vdr[8991]: ERROR: unknown picture type '5' > > May 30 23:25:15 vdr vdr[8991]: initiating emergency exit May 30 23:25:16 > vdr vdr[8931]: emergency exit requested - shutting down May 30 23:25:16 vdr > vdr[8931]: timer 1 (1 2240-0045 'Total Recall') stop May 30 23:25:16 vdr > vdr[8931]: saved setup to /root/vdr/setup.conf May 30 23:25:16 vdr > vdr[8931]: exiting May 30 23:25:16 vdr vdr[8931]: emergency exit! > > > > > > My recording stops in the middle with an unknown picture type. At this > point, nothing I do other than reboot will restore VDRAdmin (probably the > most important feature of VDR IMHO). > > > > I have tried VDR 1.3.25, I have reverted to 1.3.20. I have taken the latest > versions of firmware, I have reverted to those that came with the card. > > > > Am I alone in thinking that, for anyone who wants to actually watch TV, the > answer is a SKY+ box. Please, god forbid it should come to that. > > > > What am I doing wrong here? > > > > > > HELP ! > > > > > > Adrian P Challinor > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vdr mailing list > > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
