[mythtv] [patch] badsignal/tuning-failure handling patch.

[James Armstrong]

Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:

>
> This patch checks the value of IsErrored() from the recorder in tv_rec 
> and fires a QUIT_LIVETV event if there is an error. Also, in addition 
> to responding to the QUIT_LIVETV event, tv_play now starts the 
> recorder first, and then only start the player if the recorder 
> successfully starts.
>
> This patch will work much better if you apply the 'recorder open' 
> patch which fixes IsErrored() handling in most of the recorders.
>
> Also, if you apply these last two patches, and you want to use the 
> rest of the hdtv-recorder patch, please use version 27:
>   http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/~danielk/mythtv/hdtv-recorder-v27.tbz
>
Thanks, I can't wait to try this. My frontend would lockup anytime I 
tried to watch live tv and the signal was too low. Was getting stuck in 
the while loop waiting for the recorder.

- James