[mythtv] dvb zero length record

[John Pullan]

On 27/05/05, Tj <htpc at treblid.dyndns.org> wrote:
>   Tj NG <htpc at treblid.dyndns.org> wrote:
>  >>Yup, running with your patch.. What I did was I scheduled alot of
>  >>recordings (one show after another) and try to keep my two cards busy
>  >>as much as I could. Finally got 1 out of around 15 odd recordings.
>  >
>  >Got another *zero* byte recording, around 23.5hrs after the last one. So
>  >this patch doesn't work for me.
> This is an ugly patch that tries to retune the same channel again when
> it got a timeout getting PMT. Its ugly but it works for me (as long as
> that channel is still broadcasting I guess)...
> 
> With this patch, I got the following from the mythbackend log. This is
> from a plain CVS backend/frontend machine. I'm not sure but the ber and
> unc seems wierd. Now the next step is to figure out why it didn't tune
> properly, still not sure if it's a tuning issue though.... Any help is
> appreciated.

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Just an observations really :
I occasionally see tuning go "wild" (Nova-t cards) I don't know why
this is but the signal levels starts bouncing all over.
The ber and unc do not get zeroed in the loop so maybe the ioctl is
failing and we're not seeing that.


-- 
John