[mythtv] DVB LiveTV Tuning Blocking / Bug with transform.c

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:44:13PM -0400, Taylor Jacob wrote:
> I have been trying to get livetv to work with DVB properly.. I am pretty sure I
> have tracked a tuning issue with LiveTV down to dvbdev/transform.c, but I want
> to know if anyone else has seen experienced this or done any debuging with it..
> 
> What happens is if you are channel surfing with DVB after a few rapid channel
> changes the card will timeout and immediatly after the 15 Second error message
> you will get the VideoStream/AudioStream messages meaning its starting to fill
> the ringbuffer.. I put some debug code in ReadFromDMX and the data seems to
> start immediatly after the filters are set (as it should), but the transform.c
> code never does anything with it..

Channel surfing with DVB has always been a bit unreliable in my
experience. I don't know if I've seen the exact bug you mention though -
what would the symptoms be?


Hamish
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