Re: Video glitch with Hanftek Astrometa

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Mon Aug 21 2023 - 06:59:21 EST


On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 02:03:15PM +0200, Luigi Baldoni wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> last year I replaced my old RTL2832U/R820T DVB-T dongle (which worked
> perfectly) and replaced it with a Hanftek Astrometa (RTL2832/CXD2837ER)
> DVB-T2 one and my troubles started.
> Every channel I tune to shows a periodic glitch, as per included sample.
>
> I tried the following things:
> * connected a regular TV set to the same antenna cable and the picture looks
> fine
> * replaced the usb cable
> * switched distros (from debian to arch)
> * installed a current kernel snapshot
> * replaced the minipc on which it's installed
> * used usbip to access the hardware from my desktop machine and tested
> it directly with vlc, mpv and kaffeine: at best the stream was glitchy
> and at worst the app crashed
> * toggled every parameter available for each involved module
> * ran tzap directly
>
> None of the above made the slightest difference, therefore I'm asking you
> if there's something I might have overlooked or if this is truly a bug.
>
> Video sample here, captured with tzap:
> https://www.mediafire.com/file/qantvq916uy7o4k/rai1hd.ts/file
> https://www.4shared.com/s/folTulDcljq
>

(also Cc: RTL2832 and media subsystem maintainers)

What kernel version are you running?

Also, can you try with different dongle (ideally with different chipset)?

Thanks.

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