[mythtv] DVB alpha-0.4
Kenneth Aafloy
ke-aa at frisurf.no
Sun Sep 7 08:14:18 EDT 2003
Hi to you too!
Mike Wilcox wrote:
> I seem to have hit a problem that, if I understand correctly, has the
> same symptoms of a wrong "use_ts" setting - I get zero-length
The use_ts should be fine as long as the card supports it.
> DVB#0 Poll timed out waiting for frontend device, retrying.
> <snip between 4 and 10 more of these...>
I've removed this message now, as it's pretty useless
(and was only for testing).
> I decided to add some debugging into dvbrecorder.cpp to see what was
> happening with the PIDs and the use_ts parameter (I didn't trust that
> I'd set these correctly, and the debates on the mailing list left me a
> little, er, bemused.
He, i'm a horrible coder, sorry!
> ++ //pthread_mutex_unlock(&dvbchannel->lock);
No wonder it wasn't working, it's not even initialized in dvbchannel.
Strange though, that it has worked for me and others :)
> I can't see anything else that's trying to do a mutex on
> dvbchannel->lock, but then I can't see where dvbchannel-> lock is
> declared either. Is this mutex shared with other channels in some way?
> Anything I can do to track down where the lock is actually held?
IIRC, there is something in dvbsections.
> o some segv's after recording completes (not gdb enabled at the
> moment though).
DVBCam & DVBSections is pretty ugly coded, and reported fucking with most
things when they are actually not used (no cam in use) :)
> o failure to display correctly if a channel changes something about
> the stream while recording is taking place. I don't know exactly
> what, but I've seen it twice related to the start or end of the ITV
> news programmes (and still have one recorded).
Hmmm, didn't quite get that!
> o occasional lockup on changing live-tv channels. particularly from
> a qam_64 channel to qam_16 channel.
This is also caused by cam & section stuff.
> o occasional lockup when seeking forward or back in a recorded.
Discussed in earlier threads, i'm trying to track down what is happening,
but no luck yet, feel free to give it a shoot..
> but I'm not so worried about these until I know the effect I'm having by
> losing the mutex.
I'll try to take my eyes off the telly for a few minutes and fix it :)
> I've also seen one backend log message that referred to "DVB #54",
> logging something related to CAM , when stopping a recording. Sorry -
> lost the details though!
Probably also caused by stray pointers in dvbsection.
Delete the dvbcam* dvbsection* files, and remove all reference to
them in dvbrecorder* as suggested a few posts back.
Thanks for reporting this Mike, I'll get off my lazy butt, and fix it:)
Kenneth
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