[trsqr]

The one problem I cannot overcome, though, is pixelation/freezes with live TV using my PCTV 290e nanostick tuner. I get this with all the Openelec 3.95 betas. I notice similar reports here (around post 2743) and elsewhere (Openelec forums) but no potential fixes. The one conflicting report is from trsqr (post 2741) who says everything is rock solid stable since beta 3. Does anyone else have stable live TV on their Haswell NUCs? If so, perhaps you could report hardware, software and settings, which might help pinpoint the problems some of us are experiencing. My setup is:

I've got the same NUC and two of the same tuners. I'll need to check what's the situation currently, but indeed on beta 3 I did not get any pixelation. The issue I was seeing was that if I just watch the TV or record the TV, there's no problems. But if I open EPG, the menus or sometimes even the info overlay, I start to get continuity counter errors in Tvheadend (enable debugging to see these in the logs). It would seem to me that whatever menus I display in XBMC over the live TV picture should not impact Tvheadend! I'll need to check the situation with beta 7, haven't had too much time lately.

However, I got another issue with 2 of these tuners. Basically the xHCI host dies if I try to use 2 of these tuners simultaneously. The same happens on an Ubuntu linux, so this is not an OpenELEC or XBMC issue. I reported this as an Ubuntu bug, I hope those guys have means to further look into this or ask me for further debug printouts (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...ug/1313279 ). I have that Ubuntu on a USB hard disk. Funny thing is, if I take the hard disk and the tuners, connect them to another PC I have (Ivy Bridge Core i5) I can use both of them without any issues. So either there's something wrong with the NUC or then there's an issue in the kernel drivers somewhere, I reckon. Do you have multiple tuners?