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

[Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de>]

On Saturday 20 November 2004 15:10, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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

DMA is on on all IDE devices.
Matthias