I know you are probably tired of these Continuity Counter Error related issues, but take a look at this:
I’ve been messing around with dvr software for 4+ years with DVB-C and the norwegian provider Get. Mostly using Tvheadend, but also mediaportal on occasion.
Over the years I’ve had a lot of trouble with continuity counter errors in Tvheadend. With some versions / OS installs working better than others. But lately it has become such a big issue, that I’ve used a couple days doing some research.
Most post regarding this says that it relates to bad signal. In my case i’ve changed splitters and cables, with no apparent result. I have also tried a lot of different tuners, including HDHomerun, Sundtek USB, Digital Devices Cine-CT and TerraTec Cinergy C DVB-C. What ever tuner i use, i always get continuity counter errors.
I have also tried with different computers, everything from old/slow ones with core duo processors, amd e350 systems to faster ones with Intel Xeon E3-1245 cpus. I always use Ubuntu, but tried (among others) 10.04, 12.04 and 13.10.
My HDHomerun reports my signal strength to this:
Signal Strength 100% (10.4 dBmV)
Signal Quality 100% (37.9 dB)
Symbol Quality 100%
According to everything I’ve read, this should absolutely be sufficient for DVB-C.
After struggling with this for a while, I decided to try Mediaportal again. To be sure, I installed it on a computer that I was using tvheadend on, with the continuity counter errors. I kept the same tuners, same cables and splitters. Didn’t change anything regarding to hardware.
Where tvheadend struggled with stream errors to the point that the channels where unwatchable, Mediaportal showed no sign of problems with the streams. Everything works perfect! Mediaportal reports the signal strength and quality to be very good.
I also transferred the same muxlist from tvheadend to mediaportal, so there should be any difference there.
In light of my research, I cannot see any other reason for my continuity counter errors than software related issues.
Can someone please help me with this? It’s really driving med nuts! Right now, i think i’ll have to stick with mediaportal. But hate using windows, and I love the simplicity of tvheadend!
I don’t know if any of the developers are using DVB-C, but I am willing to give one of the developers (i guess thats mainly Adam Sutton atm) full access to a box with a couple of different tuners for debug purposes.
Regards,
Andreas (andreasb- on IRC)