recording glitches ... again

[Thomas Jagoditsch <t.ja@gmx.at>]

hi all.

after spending some time on other things, i turned to "my" vdr
yesterday.

recent story:
had to swap the motherboard for other reasons, which was luck *g*. i
now use a board with vx chipset (the old was hx) and only 32mb ram
(vs 48 before).

the outcome is, that (without hd-tuning) the glitches are much fewer
and not so disturbing as before. before (with the old board) you
could see & hear glitches while recording, on playback too, naturally.
now i see them on the log (every 2-3 minutes comes a couple of
"record buffer full", followed by "lost [audio|video] block ...") and
you could hear (shortly - "knacksen") them only on playback, no
pictureproblems anymore - a clear advantage.

btw.: hd-tuning (mulitblock/unmaskirq/writecaching/32bit) seems to
have no impact on the problem.

since i dont find mtv anymore, i could not do the "mtv-check" now
(anyone know where mtv europe/german "free" is gone). i found viva,
but recording there is "normal", like described above.

to go further i´ve found an old bx-board with a pii-350, i have to
get some ram and a chassis. this will be my next step to learn about
this.

may i bring a suggestion:
for somebody to try vdr/dvb it would be usefull to have a kind of
"vdr-known-to-run-on-or-not-to-run-on-hw-list". what do you think
about it ? we could calculate some "minimum requirements" of it.

if there is agreement here i would collect & maintain such list (dont
know where to publish, but that would be a minor problem - to start i
could post to the list monthly).

wbr.tja...

ps: ahh, i forgot, the remote via lirc works fine now - new feelings
on the sofa *g*