[mythtv] Possible timing issue between dvbchannel and dvbcam

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Sep 29 17:11:17 EDT 2004


On Wednesday 29 September 2004 04:53 pm, Anders Hanson wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have a big problem with my Viaccess Cam with MythtTV (latest cvs).
>
> The problem is that when changing between channels the cam is reporting
> that I have
> no access to the channel and I can't get the cam to recover. It is stuck
> in the 'No right' menu.
> I have looked in the code and it seems that sometimes the cam is loaded
> with the new channel
> info to late or to early so that the cam tries to use the wrong pmt for
> the wrong channel, but
> I'm not sure.
>
> The cam is working flawlessly with both vdr and the digital box that is
> provided by my
> cable provider (ComHem in Sweden).
>
> Has anyone had this problem or can help me figure out what the actual
> problem is?

Likely the utter lack of proper thread sync between the various dvb-related 
threads.  

Isaac


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