Hi,

I keep struggling to get good recordings with tvheadend. I use DVB-T in the Netherlands (Digitenne) on my ship. I replaced the old antenna with a new one, a Glomex Panorama. For now I only have one PCI DVB-T adapter in my computer which is identified by tvheadend as a "Philips TDA10046H DVB-T". When I start to record I got a lot of these errors in de logging console of tvheadend:

Mar 26 21:17:27 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: MPEG2AUDIO @ #1042: Continuity counter error Mar 26 21:17:27 cwc: Got unexpected ECM reply (seqno: 3960) Mar 26 21:17:27 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: TELETEXT @ #1043: Continuity counter error Mar 26 21:17:35 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: Transport error indicator, 11 duplicate log lines suppressed Mar 26 21:17:35 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: MPEG2VIDEO @ #1041: Continuity counter error, 4 duplicate log lines suppressed Mar 26 21:17:35 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: MPEG2AUDIO @ #1042: Continuity counter error, 1 duplicate log lines suppressed Mar 26 21:17:46 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: Transport error indicator Mar 26 21:17:46 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: MPEG2VIDEO @ #1041: Continuity counter error Mar 26 21:17:46 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: MPEG2AUDIO @ #1042: Continuity counter error Mar 26 21:17:46 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: TELETEXT @ #1043: Continuity counter error Mar 26 21:17:54 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: Transport error indicator, 6 duplicate log lines suppressed Mar 26 21:17:54 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: MPEG2VIDEO @ #1041: Continuity counter error, 2 duplicate log lines suppressed Mar 26 21:17:54 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: TELETEXT @ #1043: Continuity counter error, 1 duplicate log lines suppressed Mar 26 21:17:54 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: MPEG2AUDIO @ #1042: Continuity counter error, 1 duplicate log lines suppressed Mar 26 21:17:55 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: Transport error indicator, 17 duplicate log lines suppressed Mar 26 21:17:55 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: CA @ #1049: Continuity counter error Mar 26 21:17:55 TS: Philips TDA10046H DVB-T/Digitenne: 786,000 kHz/SBS 6: MPEG2VIDEO @ #1041: Continuity counter error, 4 duplicate log lines suppressed@

When I watch the recording the sound is gone every now and then for a short time. And the image is sometimes disturbed. I also used femon -H to monitor the signal quality when recording. I guess the first line is when the recording starts and tvheadend changes the frequency on the adapter. The other lines are made during the first few seconds of the recording. I already similar lines as above in the tvheadend logging console.


status       | signal  56% | snr  29% | ber 131070 | unc 0 | 
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 36288 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 35760 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 35412 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 33422 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 34648 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 34276 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  98% | ber 34120 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 32240 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 44696 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 36994 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  54% | snr  99% | ber 39438 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  54% | snr  99% | ber 33300 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 35224 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  54% | snr  99% | ber 33814 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 31778 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 37852 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 34688 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 34020 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 37972 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  55% | snr  99% | ber 36112 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 33780 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 31166 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 31542 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 29052 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 25840 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 26054 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 25188 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 22306 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 23370 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 22994 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 22352 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 25558 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 25338 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 25244 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 30792 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 28304 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK
status SCVYL | signal  56% | snr  99% | ber 27788 | unc 0 | FE_HAS_LOCK

As far as I understand the femon output is good, there are no uncorrectable errors and the signal has a reasonable strength. The system shouldn't be a issue. The recordings are written to the samsung disk which is formatted with brtfs. I want to replace the philips card with two TerraTec PCIe cards (both dual tuner), because the system has only 1 PCI slot. I also tried to records with an Haupage card and an external USB stick but they have the same problems. Any ideas how to fix this issue?


munnik@stuurhut:~$ sudo lshw
stuurhut                  
    description: Desktop Computer
    product: G41MT-S2P
    vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 vsyscall64 vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop uuid=00000000-0000-0000-0000-50E54923C3CA
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: G41MT-S2P
       vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: F3 (05/30/2011)
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6700  @ 2.66GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700
          slot: Socket 775
          size: 1600MHz
          capacity: 4GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 266MHz
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow cpufreq
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: a
             slot: Internal Cache
             size: 64KiB
             capacity: 64KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: b
             slot: External Cache
             size: 4MiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 18
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 8GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM 400 MHz (2.5 ns)
             physical id: 0
             slot: A0
             size: 4GiB
             width: 2244 bits
             clock: 400MHz (2.5ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM [empty]
             physical id: 1
             slot: A1
        *-bank:2
             description: DIMM 400 MHz (2.5 ns)
             physical id: 2
             slot: A2
             size: 4GiB
             width: 2244 bits
             clock: 400MHz (2.5ns)
        *-bank:3
             description: DIMM [empty]
             physical id: 3
             slot: A3
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 03
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:24 memory:d4000000-dbffffff ioport:c8000000(size=134217728)
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: NV43 [GeForce 6600]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a2
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
                resources: irq:16 memory:d4000000-d7ffffff memory:c8000000-cfffffff(prefetchable) memory:da000000-daffffff memory:d8000000-d801ffff(prefetchable)
        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
             version: 01
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
             resources: irq:16 memory:dfff8000-dfffbfff
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:25 ioport:1000(size=4096) memory:d0000000-d01fffff memory:d0200000-d03fffff(prefetchable)
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1c.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.2
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:26 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:dfe00000-dfefffff memory:d0400000-d05fffff(prefetchable)
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet
                vendor: Atheros Communications
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: c0
                serial: 50:e5:49:23:c3:ca
                size: 100MB/s
                capacity: 1GB/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.2-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.50 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
                resources: irq:27 memory:dfec0000-dfefffff ioport:df00(size=128)
        *-usb:0
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:23 ioport:ff00(size=32)
        *-usb:1
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:19 ioport:fe00(size=32)
        *-usb:2
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:18 ioport:fd00(size=32)
        *-usb:3
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.3
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:16 ioport:fc00(size=32)
        *-usb:4
             description: USB Controller
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:23 memory:dffff000-dffff3ff
        *-pci:3
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801 PCI Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             version: e1
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master cap_list
             resources: memory:dfd00000-dfdfffff
           *-multimedia
                description: Multimedia controller
                product: SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder
                vendor: Philips Semiconductors
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
                version: d1
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=saa7134 latency=32 maxlatency=32 mingnt=84
                resources: irq:20 memory:dfdff000-dfdff7ff
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-ide
             description: IDE interface
             product: N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             logical name: scsi0
             logical name: scsi1
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
             resources: irq:19 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:f900(size=16)
           *-disk:0
                description: ATA Disk
                product: INTEL SSDSA2M080
                physical id: 0
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sda
                version: 2CV1
                serial: CVPO948602PW080BGN
                size: 74GiB (80GB)
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=f5f0a10c
              *-volume:0
                   description: EXT4 volume
                   vendor: Linux
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
                   logical name: /dev/sda1
                   logical name: /
                   version: 1.0
                   serial: 84d756cf-f41c-4445-ac0f-d8f9268ef9d5
                   size: 71GiB
                   capacity: 71GiB
                   capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                   configuration: created=2012-03-17 22:19:40 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/?4???8i??$??1???H?6???$ modified=2012-03-17 22:19:57 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2012-03-25 14:12:59 state=mounted
              *-volume:1
                   description: Extended partition
                   physical id: 2
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
                   logical name: /dev/sda2
                   size: 3137MiB
                   capacity: 3137MiB
                   capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
                 *-logicalvolume
                      description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                      physical id: 5
                      logical name: /dev/sda5
                      capacity: 3137MiB
                      capabilities: nofs
           *-disk:1
                description: ATA Disk
                product: SAMSUNG HD204UI
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sdb
                version: 1AQ1
                serial: S2H7J1CB201628
                size: 1863GiB (2TB)
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=462a440f
              *-volume
                   description: Linux filesystem partition
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1
                   logical name: /dev/sdb1
                   logical name: /home
                   capacity: 1863GiB
                   capabilities: primary
                   configuration: mount.fstype=btrfs mount.options=rw,relatime state=mounted
        *-serial
             description: SMBus
             product: N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: driver=i801_smbus latency=0
             resources: irq:19 ioport:500(size=32)