Re: PVR x50 corrupts ATSC 115 streams

[David Engel <david@istwok.net>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:41:40AM -0800, Andreas wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 21:19:45 schrieben Sie:
> [...]
> > So what does all of this indicate?  My original hunch was that it's a
> > problem with the x50 hardware or driver (at least in combination with
> > my motherboard).  I think I'm back to that conclusion.
> >
> > BTW, in my testing last night, I tried changing the PCI latency timer
> > on the x50 cards.  I thought maybe it was holding off access to the
> > 115 cards.  Changing that had no effect.
> 
> Just to let you know that you're not alone:
> I had a simiilar problem with the combination of an AverMedia A180 and 
> two Asus Falcon (they use the ivtv drivers and firmware). Whenever one 
> of the Falcons was recording, I got blips and dropouts on the 
> AverMedia. I chalked it off to a flaky mainboard and seperated the 
> Falcons and the Avermedia in two different computers. A while later I 

That does sound like the same problem.

> got a new mainboard and additional ATSC tuner cards. As long as I had 
> two of the ATSC tuner cards installed, the recordings were ok, except 
> for an occasional dropout. But when I put a third ATSC tuner in, the 
> recordings were barely watchable. After I put two ATSC tuners (2x 

That sounds troubling since my current plan is to eventually remove
the PVR x50 cards altogether and use 3 ATCS 115s in the one system.

David
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