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

cal cal at graggrag.com
Thu Jan 31 01:26:47 UTC 2008


Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 6:57:22 pm cal wrote:
>> Isaac Richards wrote:
>>> 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?
>> There's a couple of clues in ...
>>   http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/37333#37333>
> 
> No, there's not.  I've not seen a valid reason why this wasn't done in the 
> driver, instead of pushing a work-around into every app that uses the driver.

I understand your agitation, but if you felt up to posting a similar little rant
on the ivtv devel list, I'd strongly recommend that you accompany it with a patch.
After all, that is the mythtv-dev philosophy :-).

Cheers.


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