[vdr] Re: can't record SAT1 / Pro7 with Nova budget card

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Wednesday 01 October 2003 09:34, Claas Hilbrecht wrote:
> I tried to build a VDR server with 2x nova-s budget cards and 2x rev 1.6 
> cards. My problem is that I can't record SAT1 and Pro7 with the budget 
> cards without getting these errors:
> 
> vdr[372]: cTS2PES got 1658 TS errors, 9726 TS continuity errors
> vdr[372]: cTS2PES got 81 TS errors, 3884 TS continuity errors
> 
> The recording is unusable with these many errors. Please note, that the 
> recording will only fail if the recording is done by a budget card. To 
> verfiy these I managed to get two identical system based on a GA-8PENXP 
> (Intel 865PE Chipset) mainboard. I put the two nova budget card in one pc 
> and the two rev 1.6 card in the other pc. The harddisk is cloned, bios 
> settings are the same even the order of the pci cards and interrupts are 
> equal. The only difference is that the sat cable length might be not 
> exactly the same maybe they differ about 1m. I've done several recordings 
> last night and all recordings with SAT1 and Pro7 are broken on the budget 
> system while the rev 1.6 system records all timers fine. Recording from RTL 
> and Vox are ok on both systems.
> 
> I used the following software:
> DVB driver = CVS snapshot from 29.09.2003
> VDR 1.2.5 without patches but with the following defines:
> recorder.c:#define VIDEOBUFSIZE  MEGABYTE(15)
> transfer.c:#define VIDEOBUFSIZE  MEGABYTE(5)
> 
> Can someone explain while the budget systems fails to record SAT1 and Pro7?

If this happens on the SAT1/Pro7/Kabel1 transponder only, the problems
is probably caused by a DECT phone. Check your cables/connectors and
use high-quality cables.

Oliver


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