[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #10765: HD-PVR: Rework SignalMonitor to avoid reading from device

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 19:58:48 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 06:29:33PM -0600, John P Poet wrote:
>> I suppose it might be a driver issue.  In a way, I hope it is, since I
>> don't know what could be special about your STB that would cause this
>> problem.
>
> I run with 3.2 kernel and what I believe is the latest firmware.  I fairly
> often have screwed up recordings.  I have a scientific atlanta 4250 STB,
> which easily takes 3 or 4 seconds to change channels, and this certainly
> seems to be way longer than mythtv has the patience for.
>
> It seems to work OK as long as the channel I go to has the same
> resolution as the previous one the STB was on, but if the resolution
> changes it seems to make the recording fail, although I can't say with
> 100% certainty that is the case.
>
> Watching live TV from the hd-pvr is pretty much imposible though.

well that is not promising at all...


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