[mythtv-users] HDPVR and Live TV - Does anyone have this working?

[Steven Adeff]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Alan Young <ayoung at teleport.com> wrote:
> John P Poet wrote:
>>
>> I am not in a position to test the attached patch at this time.
>> However, a couple of months ago, when I was looking into the problem,
>> I found that lowering the timeout for read errors from 2.5 seconds to
>> 1 second allowed LiveTV to recover better from glitches.  The attached
>> patch makes that change.
>>
>> Here is a link to the driver patch that will *probably* make this
>> change unnecessary:
>>
>>
>> http://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/media-next.git/blobdiff/63ae37ea5186a6890a8968611180dc61118f719d..afa159538af61f1a65d48927f4e949fe514fb4fc:/drivers/media/video/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c
>>
>>
>> John
>>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Oh... WOW...  When I last had time to work with the driver, which was a
> couple of years ago, I had a patch moved that line.  But it also moved the
> INIT_WORK and queue_work calls to occur before the HDPVR was sent the start
> streaming command.   I have no idea now why I didn't send it in with the
> other patches I did then.   Mauro Chehab's patch is simpler than mine.  I'll
> give his a try and probably give mine a try again too.
>
> Thanks much,
> Alan


please let us know what you find out!



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