My recordings the last few days (any source, M3U or HD Homerun) have been choppy. In troubleshooting, I recorded a random show on a channel I get constant reliable signal with, and was able to watch the show fine. When I went to the recording, it was pixelated, and audio was gargled, to the point it was unwatchable. The entire show was this way. Any thoughts? I have updated firmware on HD Homerun (although it happening on the M3U sources makes me believe that is not the issue), and did a fresh restart of my DVR (running on a Raspberry Pi 5 with Ubuntu). Any help would be appreciated.
Sounds like a storage issue. Are you trying to record to an SD card?
No, RaspberyPi is running off a Seagate external hard drive
Unfortunately Raspberry PI support is EOL
A low cost energy efficient solution is to use a mini PC with an N100 CPU. The N150 has recently replaced the N100 yet for now iGPU support for the N100 is a safer bet.
Yes, but I'm not using the ChannelsDVR Image, It's running on a Ubuntu OS.
The current setup is HD Homerun, and several M3U's. I think the HD Homerun may be part to blame, as the recordings on M3U's that I have set up (most of those occur on Saturday) seem to be fine- or at least watchable. I've toyed with upgrading HD Homerun anyway, so it may be an easy time to kill two birds with one stone and upgrade and strike out a troubleshooting item. The HD Homerun was bought December of 15, so It has some age on it.
The only thing that wouldn't make sense with that is being able to watch normal channels from the HD Homerun fine. Eventually, I think I'm going to go away from the Raspberry Pi anyway, but hopefully the HD Homerun can buy me some time before I have to do that.
You may want to see about replacing the power adapter. SD's power adapters seem to fail, and a new one might do the job.