[mythtv-users] Re: Any problems installing mythtv-suite by apt-get, then recompiling mythtv for DVB support (FC2)?

[Tom Hughes]

In message <133476214d.tom at loxley.compton.nu>
        Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In message <1103746874.22992.2.camel at avenin.ebourne.me.uk>
>           Martin Ebourne <lists at ebourne.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 17:43 +0000, Christopher McEwan wrote:
>> > The atrpms do seem to have DVB support compiled into it, but no matter
>> > what I do I cant get any DVB quality information back, even although I
>> > have enabled it to check every minute or so.
>> > 
>> > This may ofcourse be a problem at my end, like me forgetting to tick a
>> > checkbox somewhere else ;)
>> 
>> DVB quality information has never worked for me, either. 0.15 and 0.16.
>> I've not got round to looking into it, but would certainly like to get
>> it working.
>> 
>> I've seen others post to this list about it not working, but never seen
>> an answer on why not. Does anyone get DVB quality information?
>
> Nope. I turned it on but I've seen no sign of any statistics so far.

I believe this commit to dvbrecorder.cpp is the cause:

revision 1.36
date: 2004-06-15 07:27:59 +0000;  author: ijr;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -0
Disable the broken DVB signal monitor thread.

That was secondary to a report from Nick Craig-Wood about crashes
in the signal monitor thread due to the db_lock disappearing.

I can't see any sign of anybody investigating it since and there's
no obvious problem in the code that I can see.

Tom

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