[mythtv] still unreliable channel tuning with DVB-T after live TV changes

[Göran Källqvist]

söndagen den 4 december 2005 15.16 skrev Tino Keitel:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:55:41 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I tried a new SVN version (8088) and hoped that all the live TV changes
> > would improve the unreliable channel tuning I was fighting with before.
> > However, it doesn't.
> >
> > The symtoms are the following: sometimes when tuning to a channel, the
> > frontend gives output like this:
>
> [...]
>
> > 2005-12-03 11:40:57.832 AFD: Opened codec 0x8a3f010, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
> > type(Video) 2005-12-03 11:40:58.014 AFD: Initializing video at 768x576
> > pixels. 2005-12-03 11:40:58.534 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> > 2005-12-03 11:40:59.456 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> > 2005-12-03 11:41:00.381 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> > ...
> >
> > It will hang now, pressing escape doesn't work. I have to restart the
> > frontend. After this, tuning to the same channel ususally works.
> >
> > This occures with several channels on different transports at a random
> > pattern. Recordings doesn't seem to be affected, only live TV, at least
> > I can not remeber of any recent failed recordings.
>
> It would already be happy if someone could tell me if this is a known
> problem, or suggest some things I could try to solve this, or suggest
> some things to debug it. Having unreliable live TV is really annoying.
>
> Regards,
> Tino

AFAIK the Live-TV part of MythTV is under heavy development (since SVN 7738, I 
think it was) , and it's been said in this mail-list several times that it's 
not reliable for the moment.
Regards, Göran