[linux-dvb] Re: lots of TS continuity errors + SuSE 9.1

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 10:31:55AM +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:
> I am getting lots(!) of TS continuity errors on my system when I record for 
> example ZDF. 
> Oct 31 00:20:00 racoon vdr[8435]: cTS2PES got 0 TS errors, 173 TS continuity 
> errors
> 
> Everything worked fine with SuSE 8.x. No problems at all. The problems started 
> with upgrading to SuSE 9.1. Almost every channel reproduces the errors but 
> ZDF is the worst.
> 
> Viewing the live picture via vdr is just fine. No errors, no skipping. But as 
> soon as I start a recording the live picture starts to skip and I am getting 
> these continuity errors. Needless to say, that the recordings are useless.

Can you check that you have DMA enabled on your disks?

Sounds like you are losing packets due to fifo overflows or similar.

Hamish
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