[mythtv-users] card needs recording to stop/restart to correctly tune

[Mike Bibbings]

On 26/08/15 15:05, zag FP wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm on Mythbuntu 14.04 64bit, mythtv 0.27, with a WinTV-NOVA-T-Stick.
> It used to work flawlessly but it is now giving me an issue.
>
> When a recording starts, the card hangs with the message "tuning" and 
> never actually tunes.
> I found out that if I stop the recording and restart it, it tunes and 
> records correctly.
> Also, if the card is "tuning" and I start a second recording on the 
> same mux, the latter records fine, whereas the former stil hangs in a 
> "tuning" state.
>
> Once it starts recording correctly, all other schedules are recorded 
> correctly.
> If I restart the PC or use mythwelcome to start the PC and record, it 
> hangs in the "tuning" state and fails the recording. Again, I need to 
> manually start another recording to let the card tune.
>
> I've changed the DVB tuning delay from the initial 0 (used to work, 
> though!) to 500ms, but no changes.
> Signal timeout is set to 7000ms, tuning timeout is set to 10000ms.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
I don't know that specific tuner.

This reminds me of an old problem I used to have with DVB usb tuners. 
Tuning failures after a long period, could be minutes, hours or days.

The output of the dmesg command from a terminal would be useful after a 
normal restart.

Have you tried a cold restart of the PC i.e. total power off (shutdown 
and remove the power cord  for say 5 minutes and then put the power cord 
back in and restart) ?  This is not a fix but would ensure a complete 
reboot and reload of any firmware in the DVB stick . Again output from 
the dmesg command once the PC has restarted.

Mike
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