I've just discovered this thread...
I've had a D3A that I have been using routinely with no problems for a year or so (maybe longer?). I have now just been given another D3A (labelled exactly the same as the other one) which I was going to pass on to my brother for use with vomp.
Now that I've tried to test the "newer" one, it boots fine and I get the menus which work fine (the screen dims when I move the cursor up and down on the options menu - not noticed that before the other one does it too now I look!). However, I only get audio on playback or live TV. OSD graphics are still there, though.
I haven't changed any settings and I'm swapping one device directly for the other. I was thinking it was a dud but having read this thread...
I tried rebooting it a few times and one time I got a screen full of red, purple, and black stripes instead of a black screen on playback (menus, etc. still working fine). Next reboot was back to a black screen for video playback!
All of this is with vomp 0.3.0. I'm just about to boot into windross to test the proper software...if I can get that to work with anything else I've got!
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A bit ore testing with vompclient debug mode after reading other threads.
Playing back any recording on the "dodgy" one gives me audio for about 5 s and then silence. During the 5 s of sound, I see lots of Demuxer - +* PTS JUMP *+ 3716485174 48 and Demuxer - DELETED REFERENCES in vompclient debug output.
After the sound has disappeared, I get lots of alternating:
VDR - Sending KA packet
VDR - Rxd correct KA reply
messages and the odd block of Timers and BoxStack messages.
I can exit "playback" by pressingthe back button, i.e. it hasn't locked up or anything.
Just tried a radio channel and that played back (audio only!) for several minutes without problems.
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More interesting stuff: the above was running vompclient -d
If I playback a recording WITH debug sound stops after about 5 s and the time readout on the OSD never changes from -:--:--
If I playback a recording WITHOUT debug, i.e. straight after booting it, the sounds plays for much longer (10 minutes and counting...) and the OSD time updates almost instantly and counts up as expected.
Not sure whether this is due to heaver load when running with debug or something like that but seems a bit weird!
Another thing I've just noticed...the OSD on the dodgy one is stretched vertically, compared with my other, working one! The Welcome menu is about 14.5 cm high on the dodgy one but only 12 cm high on the working one. I see the same expansion with the recordings menu and also the first Hauppauge boot screen! The vomp-MAC_ADDR.conf files on the vdr server are identical (one file copied over the other).
I'm starting to wonder whether these things are actually as identical as the labelling suggests...the outputs of dmesg are identical for the two boxes (apart from IP address and MAX address bits).
I've had a D3A that I have been using routinely with no problems for a year or so (maybe longer?). I have now just been given another D3A (labelled exactly the same as the other one) which I was going to pass on to my brother for use with vomp.
Now that I've tried to test the "newer" one, it boots fine and I get the menus which work fine (the screen dims when I move the cursor up and down on the options menu - not noticed that before the other one does it too now I look!). However, I only get audio on playback or live TV. OSD graphics are still there, though.
I haven't changed any settings and I'm swapping one device directly for the other. I was thinking it was a dud but having read this thread...
I tried rebooting it a few times and one time I got a screen full of red, purple, and black stripes instead of a black screen on playback (menus, etc. still working fine). Next reboot was back to a black screen for video playback!
All of this is with vomp 0.3.0. I'm just about to boot into windross to test the proper software...if I can get that to work with anything else I've got!
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A bit ore testing with vompclient debug mode after reading other threads.
Playing back any recording on the "dodgy" one gives me audio for about 5 s and then silence. During the 5 s of sound, I see lots of Demuxer - +* PTS JUMP *+ 3716485174 48 and Demuxer - DELETED REFERENCES in vompclient debug output.
After the sound has disappeared, I get lots of alternating:
VDR - Sending KA packet
VDR - Rxd correct KA reply
messages and the odd block of Timers and BoxStack messages.
I can exit "playback" by pressingthe back button, i.e. it hasn't locked up or anything.
Just tried a radio channel and that played back (audio only!) for several minutes without problems.
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More interesting stuff: the above was running vompclient -d
If I playback a recording WITH debug sound stops after about 5 s and the time readout on the OSD never changes from -:--:--
If I playback a recording WITHOUT debug, i.e. straight after booting it, the sounds plays for much longer (10 minutes and counting...) and the OSD time updates almost instantly and counts up as expected.
Not sure whether this is due to heaver load when running with debug or something like that but seems a bit weird!
Another thing I've just noticed...the OSD on the dodgy one is stretched vertically, compared with my other, working one! The Welcome menu is about 14.5 cm high on the dodgy one but only 12 cm high on the working one. I see the same expansion with the recordings menu and also the first Hauppauge boot screen! The vomp-MAC_ADDR.conf files on the vdr server are identical (one file copied over the other).
I'm starting to wonder whether these things are actually as identical as the labelling suggests...the outputs of dmesg are identical for the two boxes (apart from IP address and MAX address bits).