[vdr] Re: Bad recording quality

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Fre, 2002-07-19 um 11.41 schrieb Marko Myllymaa:
> Hi!
> 
> I got my vdr working somehow yesterday. I'm using only Nova-T card. So
> there is no video out. (at the moment) And I use DEBUG_OSD and keyboard as
> remote to control vdr over ssh.
> 
> When I used dvbtune to tune the channels I notised that alls channels had
> signal strength and SNR as zero. Dvbtune was version 0.3.
> 
> After tuning the vdr worked, it found the epg data for channels. And when
> I recorded something, it actually recorded it.
> But the problem is that the video is not smooth. Well it's smooth for
> about 1 sec then it pauses for a moment and then continues again some time
> normally. The picture is quite good, not too many compression artifacts.
> Or signs of loss of signal.
> 
> But could the signal be to weak or something?
> Or do I have a bottleneck in my HD?
> Or does vdr try to show the video somehow allthough there is no hardware?
> (my cpu is only P166)
> 
> 

The Nova is a low-budget card without ARM/firmware. Maybe your P166 is
to slow for remuxing. Can you check that in a faster machine?

Rene