[mythtv] Re: TVRec: Timed out waiting for lock -- aborting recording

[Glen Dragon]

John P Poet wrote:

>On 9/12/05, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 9/11/05, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 20:33 -0600, John P Poet wrote:
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>>>>On 9/7/05, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>Daniel, is it possible that I have always had slow locks on my NBC
>>>>station, but older versions of Myth just did not care?
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>>>Yes and no, older versions would have blocked until it got
>>>a lock, so you would have noticed the delay in LiveTV.
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>>>This was part of the problem with the old way of doing things.
>>>If it never got a lock it would stay in the loop forever.
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>>>-- Daniel
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>>Well, unforunately my "hack" is not reliable.  My myth system failed
>>to record Prison Break tonight because it gave up waiting for a lock.
>>What is interesting, is that this is FOX, not NBC.  I guess that means
>>that while NBC is the worst offender, it can happen on any channel.
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>>I was running the 9/08 svn of Myth.  I am going to upgrade to the
>>latest svn and take a look at it.  I know that Kenneth thinks the
>>problem should be solved in the driver, but I don't see how.
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>At this point, I believe I was able to confuse the tuner, trying to
>tune my NBC station.  I believe the tuner was in a bad state when it
>tried to record the program off of FOX.  As long as I don't try to
>record anything off of NBC on my HD-3000, then all the other stations
>seem to work fine.
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>I would have given up on trying to record off of NBC, but my TV's HD
>tuner is able to show that station without any glitches.  Finally, out
>of desperation, I put my old HD-2000 back in the system and tried it. 
>Voila!  My HD-2000 has no problem with NBC.  It immediately gets a
>solid lock, and never looses it.  Tried all three of my HD-3000 cards
>again, but none of them will lock onto that station.
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>For now, I have created a new lineup on zap2it just for my HD-2000
>card, and made my NBC station "invisible" to my HD-3000 cards.
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>Myth is working fine for me now.
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>Daniel, sorry to waste your time on this.  This problem really had
>nothing to do with Myth.  Kenneth was right.
>
>John
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Hmm... what does this mean for me?  Do we know what is wrong with the 
HD-3000 drivers?  This really pretty much sucks for me, since i can't 
get my CBS station, and I don't happen to have a HD-2000 (only 3 
HD-3000's).  Is there a bug database for the HD 3000 drivers?  I haven't 
seen too much activity, especially now that they are into the .12 kernels.

Any suggestions?