[PLUG] Communication error, HDHomeRun tuner

[Richard England]

On 2019-12-30 16:59, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:29:41 -0800 (PST)
> Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> dijo:
>
>>> I could use some suggestions for what to poke at next. Any ideas?
>> My first thought is that a new Intel video driver was recently
>> installed and that it's buggy with desktop hardware, which I assume to
>> be somewhat different (and older) and your laptop.
>>
>> My second thought, not unlike the first, is that a new kernel
>> subsystem isn't working and playing well with the desktop hardware.
>>
>> Can you reboot into an older kernel on the desktop?
> I had 4.15.0-72-generic, and Grub listed a couple older ones, so I
> rebooted into 4.13..0-36-generic. No difference. I had upgraded the
> laptop to 5.3 in order to get the wifi working, so I installed 5.3 on
> the desktop as well. But after rebooting to 5.3.0-24-generic it still
> won't work correctly. I keep getting a popup that says 'Communication
> error.' The tuner is hung until I click on OK in the popup, then the
> tuner lets me reconnect. This happens every three or four minutes.
>
> It was a good idea, but it didn't work. :(
>
> Edit: Maybe it did work, at least partially. I had a terminal window
> open so it dawned on me to launch the tuner from the command line to
> see what might happen. Omigod, the error messages - pages and pages,
> all the same:
> 	ts demux error:libvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS duplicate
> 	(received 0, expected 1) for PID 0
> And after about six minutes of playing I got the dreaded 'Communication
> error' popup again, whereupon the terminal announced:
> 	main input error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late
> 	(pts_delay increased to 1000ms)
> Now, I don't know whether those error messages were from the tuner or
> from VLC. And regardless, they mean nothing to me. All I can tell is
> that the last one is apparently what caused the 'Communication error'
> popup.
>
> At least now I have a bit more data to go on. Maybe those error
> messages will mean something to someone here.
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Coming into the middle of this and I may be off base, but I found 
references to a VLC issue here:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=141970

where they suggest the installation of libdvdcss2  helped something similar.

IANAE so take this with a grain of salt.

~~R