Re: Afatech AF9013 DVB-T not working with mplayer radio streams

[Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>]

On 07/02/2009 11:43 AM, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> Some extra information about the lockups of my AF9015, this is a serious
> blocker issue for me. It happens when I watch a channel with totem-xine
> and switch to an other channel, the device is then unable to lock to the
> new channel, and totem-xine hangs. There are no messages in dmesg.
>
> Rebooting the system does not help getting the device working again, the
> only way i found is to replug the usb device and this is not an option
> for my systems because the usb devices are hidden.

I have seen that also with Totem-xine few times. Totem-xine hags totally 
and it must be killed. But after that my device starts working without 
replug (if I remember correctly). One thing could be power issue. If you 
have possibility to test with powered USB -hub please do.

> Is there an other USB DVB-T device that works out of the box with the
> 2.9.30 kernel? Could somebody show me a link or name of this device so I
> can buy and test it?

DibCOM based sticks are usually good choice. There is many models from 
many vendors, TerraTec, Artec (Artec T14BR is sold here in Finland 20-30e).

DibCOM also uses big USB block size which seems to reduce system load. 
Look examples from here:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hlangos

Could someone explain why USB block size have so big effect to load?

regards
Antti
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