[mythtv] Current DVB problems rundown

[Allan Stirling]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:48 +0100, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:07:48AM -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>>
>>>If not we could disable signal monitoring for this card.
>>>You could change SignalMonitor::IsSupported() to return
>>>false if the card is a dvb-ttpci card. And use the same
>>>detection code in DVBChannel and check for a lock in Tune
>>>if it is a dvb-ttpci card. Or, you could get the driver
>>>devs to fix the problem...
>>>
>>
>>The ioctls that are used in the signal monitoring appear
>>be "nice to have's" for each driver.
>>
>>It's only in 2.6.12 that my card's had support for 3 out of 4
>>of the ioctls. Before that they all failed as unsupported.
> 
> The only one that is required is the signal lock status, in the
> DVBSignalMonitor constructor we check for the supported status
> of each monitoring type and ignore the unsupported ones.
> 
> But we may need to check for card[s] that don't support even lock
> status monitoring and disable monitoring for those cards.
> 
> -- Daniel
Is (event.status & FE_HAS_LOCK) ever tested? Yes, we're getting events, 
but are they actually lock events?

Cheers,

Allan.