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Hi folks,
what does the "Errors"-field in "Status"-Tab (Webinterface) mean ?
For an unknown reason I get on some services at two muxes "Errors" which are visible in livetv through a pixelated picture (RTL HD, RTL2 HD, VOX HD, n-tv HD and RTL Nitro HD). The services are HD/h.264, DVB-S2 (I receive a lot more DVB-S2 services which are running fine without problems). Another service at one of the trouble mux doesn't cause errors (Super RTL HD fine vs RTL Nitro HD bad).
I have simply no idea what causes these errors - since rest runs fine I don't think it's a hardware issue - and what I could change in settings to avoid these.
Maybe someone has a suggestion !?
Greetz
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Hi,
This shows exactly what happened to my system and a few others running tvh with xbmc/openelec. Obviously this problem is only happening on RTL group transponders and appeared from one day to the other. I checked with different cards (hd01 and hd02) - still same issue. I'm wondering what happend on the sat and/or card side since everything else can be excluded (hardware, dvb cards, xbmc, openelec, et cetera).
Only things I can image are:
- slight transponder shift (read something from one guy manually moving the transponder a few MHz)?
- cards need updates / changes in the encryption algorithm?
- RTL group changed video/audio codec?
My next steps will be deleting the affected channels from the channel list and re-scan the transponder. Also a card update might be necessary (will try to get a receiver since I have no clue if card updates via oscam will work).
Are there any other backend users around having the same issues?
Best regards,
b.letas
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Instead of "Nagravision" in the encryption column in the services table there is the entry "0x1843".
I got the same problem with RTL Nitro HD on transponder 11082. Super RTL HD on the sme transponder works flawlessly.
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We have it. with both, 0x1830 and 0x1843. Will check Nitro HD too. Tvheadend error message "continuity counter error" points to mpeg stream drops or duplicates. Did you try to update OSCAM? Maybe this report should be posted in tvh / oscam forums as well!? We did a rescan of services with no success. I'm running out of ideas.
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LastCoder, what's the OSCAM version you are running? We have "oscam 1.10 rc-svn #6089" on raspi and "oscam 1.10 #0" on ubuntu 12.04. I'd go for some newer releases for the pi to double-check.
I wouldn't recommend updating TVH as well. Every newer version I tested came with new and/or old errors so far. Also Adam from TVH is far from being able to release a stable new version in regards to his new family job as mentioned in his forum and news.
Transponder info on kingofsat showed me that the whole transponder has been rebuild by RTL group for releasing new channels and satellite shifted to Astra 1KR some time beginning July. Exactly the time when our problem occured.
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2014-07-15, 19:54
(This post was last modified: 2014-07-15, 20:20 by LastCoder.)
using oscam 1.20. vdr is fine, no errors. must be a tvh issue.
kingofsat reports transponder frequency at 10832,25 .. read, that some guys have to use 10834 .. will try ..
btw. FernetMenta told, that vdpau accel is very sensitive to mpeg stream errors which lead to pixelation. I use vdpau.
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2014-07-15, 22:25
(This post was last modified: 2014-07-15, 22:30 by LastCoder.)
- 10834 or 10832,25 didn't solve the problem
- vdpau disabled didn't make a difference
- disabling full mux reception, PMT monitoring didn't help
- FernetMenta reports pixelation errors with VDR !
what the hell did the RTL guys when adding N-TV HD ??!
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There must be one thing we all have in common since I assume there would be more error reports around.
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what are your hardwarespecs, especially dvb s2 card ? we both use ubuntu 12.04 !? maybe a driver/firmware update ?