[vdr] Re: RTL-group replay problems

[Gregor Lawatscheck <gpel@mpex.net>]

At 09:52 13/03/2003, you wrote:
> I have lots of problems with my DVB-T card in the UK (mostly to do
> with black screens and general death) and I cannot for the life me of get 
> C5 (either I have
> the frequency wrong, or the signal is below threshold), BUT I regularly record
> C4 & ITV and ff & rew work just fine - I like skipping commercials and
> end up using them a lot. So sorry, don't have THAT problem...
>
> vdr 1.1.25,  dvb 1.0pre2, kernel 2.4.20
There was a problem with oversized TS packets which affected C5 (and other 
channels on that transmitter) but has since been fixed (as of 1.1.22?) by 
Teemu.

There is transfer mode issue between DVB-T -> DVB-s with some channels 
(BBC2, BBC News 24 and other) with the new drivers (i.e. ever since 
newstruct). It's not a firmware problem, as older firmware with new drivers 
doesn't work. Somehow on these two channels (and sporadicly on others too) 
about 8 out of 10 times right after the PIDs are set and transfor mode is 
initiated, the DVB-s cards seems to stop taking in and processing / 
decoding data, the buffer then fills up with data from the DVB-T and the 
picture remains black. I've been at a loss in figuring out why something 
like this could have been introduced in the new drivers. In fact it very, 
very sporadically happens with the old drivers and Channel 4 too (1 out of 
50 or so). I wonder whether it could something to do if it doesn't find a 
sync packet in remux or something and tuning only works if the channel 
happens to send something. Mhh...

- Gregor



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