[mythtv] DVB: no longer paying attention to "Open DVB card on demand"?

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Mon Oct 3 12:39:13 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:46 +0100, Dave Just wrote:
> I have the "open DVB card on demand" flag set, but it seems that in  
> recent versions this flag is not obeyed?

This should only be the case if you have experimental EIT scanning
enabled. DVB on-demand is still working but the the EIT Scan is
continuous.... My hope is that someone will step in and improve on
this situation. Perhaps doing a scan every few hours, or just before
a recording (which would also catch changed start times...).

> Also, if I run mythtv-setup while the backend is running,
> I see "Could not open card #0!".
Don't do that! You can screw up MythTV by running mythtv-setup
while the backend is running. The harder it is to make that
mistake the better.

> At least for the last reason, I think the on-demand behaviour
> should be the default, BTW, for least surprise.
Ideally, we would detect any running instances of the backend
and refuse to run the mythtv-setup. But someone has to write
this code...

-- Daniel



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