[mythtv-users] I want to make myth retry tuning until it gets a signal - using DCT-6200 Firewire

Chad Jannusch bgmncwj at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 22:36:46 UTC 2006


On 7/25/06, Matt Mousseau <matt at amsvans.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi there!
>
> The subject says it all, I'm looking to make myth retry tuning into a
> given chanel until it gets a signal. I keep finding that a lot of chanels
> don't start streaming over firewire on the first try, so I was wondering if
> there was a way to essentially make myth try tuning a channel, wait a given
> amount of time for the stream to start, then retry tuning, wait the same
> amount of time, etc etc.
>
> When you try watching live tv and it doesn't get a stream started, it
> fails and goes back to the main menu. When the backend tries to record
> something where the stream doesn't start, I wind up with references to files
> that don't exist all over the database that cause the frontend to lockup for
> 10 seconds every time it runs into one.
>
> This problem is really putting a damper on my love for mythTV, anyone got
> suggestions?
>
> Matthew Mousseau
> AMSVans, Inc. Webmaster
> matt at amsvans.com
>
>
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Hello,
There's a script up on the wiki that sounds like it's what you're looking
for: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Script_-_Firewire_Priming

--Chad
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