[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4466: MythTV should disable tuner before switching inputs

cal cal at graggrag.com
Wed Jan 30 23:02:05 UTC 2008


Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 16:33 +1100, cal wrote:
>> Would such a close/reopen hack be feasible in myth ... and where to look
>> for the possibilities?
> 
> Well it is easy enough to close and reopen the videofd in
> Channel::SetInputAndFormat(), but I doubt that would be sufficient.
> There is another possibly open file descriptor for the same device
> in MpegRecorder. If that also needs to be closed and reopened then
> it becomes rather difficult to do this in a clean manner.

Thanks Daniel. I did try a rudimentary close/open in SetInputAndFormat,
but no joy. And I figured a full, clean fix is going to be rather
difficult.

Cheers.



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