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[mpeg2] Re: Only _one_ TS recording possible



Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> After the "One line disturbance in picture" has been solved by using
> a 2.4.18 kernel I'm now trying to solve the (still persisting) problem
> that only _one_ TS recording is possible - every following TS recording
> shows heavy artefacts, and at some point there's no recording possible
> at all any more.
> 
> Here's a recipe how this can be reproduced:
> 
>  insmod kfir.o vidinput=0 vidrate=3000000 streamtype=4
> 
>  cat /dev/video > file1.ts    (Ctrl-C after some 10 seconds)
> 
>  cat /dev/video > file2.ts    (Ctrl-C after some 10 seconds)
> 
>  rmmod kfir
> 
>  insmod kfir.o vidinput=0 vidrate=3000000 streamtype=4
> 
>  cat /dev/video > file3.ts    (Ctrl-C after some 10 seconds)
> 
> After this you have three TS files. Convert them to any format you
> can replay and watch the results. 'file1' is ok, while 'file2' shows
> artefacts. 'file3' is ok again, as is every first recording after
> the driver has been freshly loaded.
> 
> If I do the same with the default setting for 'streamtype' (which
> produces a Program Stream), every recording is ok. So I would assume
> that something doesn't get set or reset correctly in case of TS.
> 
> Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Additional information: I installed the card in a Windows 98 machine
and did two subsequent TS recordings with the original Visiontech
software - and both recordings were ok. So the problem can't be on the
hardware, I guess.

Klaus
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Klaus Schmidinger                       Phone: +49-8635-6989-10
CadSoft Computer GmbH                   Fax:   +49-8635-6989-40
Hofmark 2                               Email:   kls@cadsoft.de
D-84568 Pleiskirchen, Germany           URL:     www.cadsoft.de
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