[mythtv] DVB channel won't scan

Trey Boudreau trey at treysoft.com
Sun Apr 24 01:01:52 UTC 2005


I decided to bounce this to the dev list since it smells like a parser
bug.

My configuration:

2 x Air2PC ATSC PCI cards.
Gentoo with the 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 kernel DVB drivers.

I have at least one channel with 99% signal strength and 89% snr with a
solid lock, but the scan never finishes (it gets stuck at 5%).
dvbtraffic shows almost the same info as a working channel:

-: Failing Channel :-
-PID--FREQ-----BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH-
0000     9 p/s     1 kb/s    14 kbit
0030     2 p/s     0 kb/s     4 kbit
0031 10372 p/s  1904 kb/s 15599 kbit
0034   264 p/s    48 kb/s   397 kbit
0035   132 p/s    24 kb/s   198 kbit
2000 10781 p/s  1979 kb/s 16215 kbit
-PID--FREQ-----BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH-
0000     9 p/s     1 kb/s    14 kbit
0030     2 p/s     0 kb/s     4 kbit
0031 10130 p/s  1859 kb/s 15235 kbit
0034   257 p/s    47 kb/s   387 kbit
0035   130 p/s    23 kb/s   195 kbit
2000 10530 p/s  1933 kb/s 15838 kbit

-: Working Channel :-
-PID--FREQ-----BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH-
0000     9 p/s     1 kb/s    14 kbit
0001     0 p/s     0 kb/s     1 kbit
0030     1 p/s     0 kb/s     2 kbit
0031 10250 p/s  1881 kb/s 15416 kbit
0034   217 p/s    39 kb/s   327 kbit
0035   132 p/s    24 kb/s   199 kbit
13f5     5 p/s     0 kb/s     8 kbit
1ffb    15 p/s     2 kb/s    23 kbit
2000 10635 p/s  1952 kb/s 15995 kbit
-PID--FREQ-----BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH-
0000     9 p/s     1 kb/s    14 kbit
0030     2 p/s     0 kb/s     4 kbit
0031 10531 p/s  1933 kb/s 15839 kbit
0034   225 p/s    41 kb/s   338 kbit
0035   136 p/s    24 kb/s   205 kbit
13f5     2 p/s     0 kb/s     4 kbit
1ffb    16 p/s     2 kb/s    24 kbit
2000 10925 p/s  2005 kb/s 16431 kbit

Does the scanner need the 0001, 13f5, and/or 1ffb PIDs?  This channel
worked fine with a pcHDTV-2000 and the v4l2 drivers.

-- Trey


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