New Zealand DVB-S issues

[darthmeow]

Hi there.

I'm fairly new to all of this, though I was able to at least get my DVB-S setup in GB-PVR and working without a hitch ... sort of.

I've got two problems I just can't figure out. One, for some reason the channel scan will no longer pickup Sport Extra (in NZ, btw) on the TVNZ frequency, and number two is a recording issue. Some recordings are fine, some aren't. The ones that aren't are exhibiting an issue where they are fine for about 10 seconds, then they sprint ahead, play a few frames, sprint ahead, half a frame, sprint ahead, maybe quarter to half of a frame (if I'm lucky). Playback of the output TS file from the suspect recording in Media Player Classic plays back fine ... except for every 10 seconds there's a sudden burst of "blocky picture" and a blip of audio compression squeak. Live TV is perfectly fine and this is only affecting some recordings. It's driving me nuts ... and caused a miss of outrageous fortune but meh, TV3 have it online at least

Capture board is an AverMedia A700 based hybrid dvb-s + analog card. Is there perhaps something I've done wrong somewhere in the setup?

[sub]

They recently removed Sports Extra from DVB-S to free up space for the regional copies of TV One etc. See the list of channels here: http://www.freeviewnz.tv/whats_on_freeview/channels (click "Sat" and Sports Extra greys out)

For the breaking up picture and funny speed problems, this sounds like reception problems.

[darthmeow]

So thats where it went. It was still on lyngsat's list when I updated. Oh well guess I'll have to pick up a DVB-T dongle.

As for the picture issue on recordings, it's not affecting live TV so I can't see how it's a reception issue. It recorded the same thing last week fine without a hitch, and it's only happening on the odd recording, particularly from TV3. Still, i'll go find a ladder and have a look at the dish alignment at some point of the weekend.

[sub]

Reproduce the problem, then post the logs and I'll take a look.

[darthmeow]

OK I think i've found the issue. Think i've got some dodgy hardware here. Seems to be if I cue a record from PVRX2 it happens, if i cue it off the web interface it's fine. It is fairly old-ish hardware so I'll research some more.

Cheers though looks like I'm the dummy!

[siliconaudio]

Is your hard drive operating in DMA mode? If it has reverted to PIO mode, you will see this kind of thing. Go into device manager and examine your primary & secondary IDE (or SATA) channels.