[mythtv] MythTV Crashes on DVB channel change.

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 10 July 2003 05:25 pm, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Isaac Richards wrote:
> >If it's changing settings like these mid-stream, that's certainly what's
> >causing it to die.
>
> Yes. With DVB, you get the MPEG stream directly from the satellite, and
> every channel may use different MPEG settings, even aspect ratio (and
> do, in practice). MythTV, however, currently doesn't stop the stream
> during a channel change, but just keeps it running (recorder, player,
> display and all). So, we'd basically need to change that, tearing down
> at least the player (or parts thereof), so it can reinitialize to the
> new stream. Do you think that's a good idea (and acceptable change), and
> do you have any particular pointers/hints/ideas about what to do
> concretely? IIRC, zaheer was looking into that or wanted to, I don't
> remember. It's not a top priority for me, because I hardly ever use
> LiveTV, only for MTV :).

As long as it only does the tearing down when it's necessary, and not for 
everyone on every channel change, yeah, that's fine.  As for how to go about 
it, I hadn't thought about it, but I doubt it will be easy to do.

Isaac