From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:57422 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751531Ab1JHNKc (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:10:32 -0400 Received: by wwf22 with SMTP id 22so7150527wwf.1 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:10:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4e904bc5.83c9e30a.6332.ffff8e1c@mx.google.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] af9013 Extended monitoring in set_frontend. From: Malcolm Priestley To: Jason Hecker Cc: Josu Lazkano , linux-media Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:10:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <4e83369f.5d6de30a.485b.ffffdc29@mx.google.com> <4e8b8099.95d1e30a.4bee.0501@mx.google.com> <4e8f6b0b.c90fe30a.4a1d.26bb@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 09:46 +1100, Jason Hecker wrote: > > Try this patch, it should stop start up corruption on the same frontend. > > Thanks. I'll try it today. > > Have you been able to reproduce any of the corruption issues I and > others are having? Yes , I left it recording various programmes overnight, but the symptoms come and go. > > I noticed last night some recordings on the same card had different > levels of corruption depending on the order of tuning > > Tuner A then tuner B : Tuner A was heavily corrupted. Tuner B was a fine. > Tuner B then tuner A: Tuner A had a small corruption every few seconds > and the show was watchable, Tuner B was fine. It seems like a lagging effect, as if the devices firmware is slowing down.