[mythtv] Current DVB problems rundown

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 09:17 +0100, John Pullan wrote:
> On 26/08/05, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Here is the list of problems I'm aware of:
> > 
> > * Exiting Live TV when there is no signal broken  (Adam Egger)
> >     No idea why, but I have an idea of how to debug.
> > * 1st rec stops if 2nd rec started immediately.   (Mark Weaver)
> >     I'm assuming this is because the 1st recorder isn't
> >     marked as busy quickly enough and LiveTV reuses it.
> > * Visible flag incorrectly set for some channels  (Glen Dragon)
> >     Get printout of vct.toString() from Glen to diagnose.
> > * Got tables, but failed a lock check?            (Allan Stirling)
> >     Get printout of GetStatusList()
> > * PMT always on first tune always fails PMT check (Allan Stirling)
> >     Google hardware/drivers for rewriting bugs
> > * 7080 upto 7130 -- scheduled recordings fail     (David Shirley)
> >     ????
> > * DVB Scan of existing transports broken          (multiple reports)
> >     Get verification of bugfix [7143]
> > 
> > If anyone feels left out let me know :)
> > 
> I've still got scan issues, (now loops rather than stops). I'll try
> and get you the appropriate logs this evening.
It looks like this isn't really a DVB problem but some kind of race
condition. can you try replacing all instances of:
  nextIt = scanTransports.end();
with
  current = nextIt = scanTransports.end();

I'm not all that excited about introducing locking to SIScan, but it
may be needed.

-- Daniel