[mythtv-users] tuning timeout with dvb-s hd h264

Andrew Lyon andrew.lyon at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 01:33:17 UTC 2007


On 2/18/07, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/02/07, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I try to tune to a dvb-s hd h264 channel (bbc hd) myth rarely
> > locks on first time, but if i try again it locks and playback starts,
> > I think it just times out the first time, is there a timeout value for
> > dvb-s cards? or better yet a channel specific timeout value?
> >
> > Ive looked but all ive found is timeout values for atsc, not dvb-s.
> >
>
> Don't know about dvb-s but for my dvb-t card I set the following
> timeouts to enable me to record the BBC HD stuff (with the default
> values I got zero byte recordings).  I set the timeouts high and
> intended to gradually reduce them to find out what the actual limit
> was - never got round to doing that yet though!
>
> (In mythtv-setup)
>
> Signal Timeout to 2000ms
> Tuning Timeout to 4000ms
> DVB Tuning Delay to 1000ms
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The current values are:

Signal Timeout: 60000 msec
Tuning Timeout: 62500 msec

Are msec and ms the same scale? I dont see a tuning delay at all.

Andy


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