[mythtv-commits] Ticket #9954: Bad channel crash loop - Problem since v 0.18
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#9954: Bad channel crash loop - Problem since v 0.18
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Reporter: al5121024@… | Type: Bug
Status: new | Report - Crash
Milestone: unknown | Priority: minor
Version: Unspecified | Component: MythTV
Keywords: Bad channel bug crash starting | - General
channel | Severity: high
| Ticket locked: 0
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Minor Problem: Channel scan finds 100s of invalid, non-existent channels.
Tuning to an invalid channel in LiveTV crashes to main menu.
Major problem: No fast way to recover. Fastest way is to close down, run
backend setup and manually change the starting channel. No big deal if
it's one channel, one time. 5 minutes or so to fix. Major problem is that
if you are trying to label 500 channels, 200 crashes are going to add an
extra 16 hours to the time it takes.
I regret to report that this has been a problem since at least version
0.18 (see link). I have seen lots of people asking for this to be fixed.
http://www.gossamer-
threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/196477?search_string=%26quot%3Bbad%20channels%26quot%3B;#196477
Forget about fixing the "crash when the data is bad" problem.
The real problem (can't quickly recover from crash) is an incredibly
simple problem to make a good workaround. Please accept my suggestion for
one or more of the following seven ways to workaround it.
1) On crash, return to last working channel
2) On crash, return to a pre-set channel (e.g., channel 2_1)
3) On crash, tune to analog tuner (for those of us with analog and digital
tuners)
4) Option for a "what channel do you want" to pop up when selecting live
TV, before trying to turn to TCC (the Crash Channel).
5) An option to have a fixed starting channel rather than a variable one.
6) A simple command line program to change to another startup channel
while frontend is running.
7) Let us tune to a channel from the channel guide in "schedule
recordings" instead of only live TV (which crashes before we can get
there).
8) When it crashes, offer the option to delete the channel then and there
(then tune to default channel when starting).
In short, if you can't stop the thing from crashing on particular
channels, please provide some very fast way to get away from a bad
channel. I would be happy to tab to a terminal, then re-run a command line
every time it crashes.
If it matters, I have HDhomerun. Oh, and this isn't the SD/HD bug. It
happens regardless of what channel you start from, only the destination
channel matters.
So could somebody please, please fix this so that those of us whose cable
company shuffles the channels from time to time don't have to spend days
weeding out the bad ones?
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Ticket URL: <http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9954>
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