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

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Wed Jan 30 23:50:33 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 30 January 2008 6:02:05 pm cal wrote:
> 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.

Why isn't this logic in the driver, again?

Isaac


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