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@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] On Behalf Of Adrian P Challinor Sent: 31 May 2005 07:36 To: 'Klaus Schmidinger's VDR' Subject: RE: [vdr] 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@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] On Behalf Of Karsten Müller Sent: 31 May 2005 07:26 To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR Subject: Re: [vdr] 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
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