[mythtv] more on dvb record failure

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Mon Aug 22 11:26:33 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:19 +1000, Mark Spieth wrote:
> >
> > There around line 787 there is this statement:
> >         ok = wait_for_dvb(channel, 1000, abortRecordingStart);
> > Can you try increasing that 1000 ms until it works?
> > Then send me the value that seems to work for you?
> >
> > According to the specs the timeout should be about 450 ms, but it
> > appears there may be an insanely large latency in the DVB drivers
> > themselves.
> >
> 
> I set it to 2 sec yesterday and so far so good. however attached is a list
> of key lines for the past week.
> I havent seen anything longer than 3 secs. I have now set it to 5 secs and
> will monitor it to see how it goes.
> If anyone else wants to add some data I generated these with
> 
> grep -E "DVB SI Table Parser Started|SetPMT  ServiceID|PMT NOT SET"
> /var/log/mythtv/mythtvbackend.log* | cut -d: -f2- | sort > PMTtime.log
> 
> may be able to get a better data set with multiple countries.

Are the services that take a while encryped?

Maybe we need add the access controller's startup time to the timeout?

-- Daniel



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