[mythtv] Ticket #1049: DVBSignalMonitor needs to be able to monitor NIT/SDT

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Wed Jun 7 13:16:41 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 08:50 -0400, Mark Buechler wrote:
> It was actually the dst based Twinhan cards I had the most trouble
> with. In correction, the Genpix 8psk module behaves like the Nexus in
> that it works well with rotors and tuning.
> Once the new DiSEqC stuff goes in, within the new tuning process after
> the rotor is estimated to be at its desired location, and the tuing
> code retunes, I think we should retune every few seconds until a lock
> is gotten. Given how the dst based cards behave, if we don't retune
> several times then we're very highly dependant on rotor movement speed
> estimates. 
I can move the retune stuff to the signal monitor. This is much cleaner
than keeping the code in TVRec, and should allow us to only do the
retune when we don't have a lock on the proper multiplex.

>> Actually, now that you mention it, I think Andrew did get something
>> like that in -- SET_FRONTEND_TUNE_MODE or something like that, which
>> allows you to totally disable the software retune stuff. That would
>> basically make all cards behave like the dst -- so you'd have to
>> watch your signal and manually retune if you lost lock, etc. But at
>> least it'd be consistent, and no monkey business going on. I'll look
>> into this. We could test the DVB API version and use this if we have
>> recent drivers.

-- Daniel




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