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Recording problems

Added by Keith C about 7 years ago

I've been using tvheadend for a little while now and just recently have started having problems with it. I had it setup on a Debian 8 machine running on a VM environment with a Hauppauge USB card. I had issues with that setup but always thought it was the tuner. I recently bought a Hdhomerun device and have experienced more problems. On the Debian 8 system i would get hundreds (sometimes thousands) of data errors. I searched and was not able to resolve it so i rebuilt my system, this time using Ubuntu 16.

The Ubuntu setup doesnt has the high number of data errors (at least yet), its still higher than i'd like. A recording i made yesterday had 224, i didnt watch the stream live, but i typically dont see any visible issues when watching outside of tvheadend.

The main problem I'm having now i is with recordings. The "pass" streaming profile randomly stops recording but tvheadend indicates it is still recording. I switched (based on a post) to matroska, but it randomly splits my recording into multiple files (i think due to errors?). I've tried the other profiles but most of them generate a lot of data errors.

Is there a recommended setup i can use? Or anyone know how i can fix the data errors and pick a good profile?


Replies (4)

RE: Recording problems - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 7 years ago

There were a few people that reported the same thing with their HDHR's. I think someone suggested enabling "Force old status" (in the tuner settings) to avoid the errors.

RE: Recording problems - Added by Keith C about 7 years ago

Thanks. I've enabled that for the internal (USB) tuner, but the HDhomerun tuner doesn't have that option. I had the Hdhomerun tuners set to a higher priority so i think it was using those tuners.

RE: Recording problems - Added by Keith C about 7 years ago

Any other suggestions? I enabled that feature and it didnt correct the problem. I disabled the internal USB tuner and just used the HDHomerun ones yesterday and still happened. I guess i'll try disabling the HDHomerun ones and use the internal to see if that changes anything.

RE: Recording problems - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 7 years ago

You could try turning off all the rewrite options for the pass profile.

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