[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r7209 by danielk

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 12:41 -0400, Joshua M. Thompson wrote:
> I keep thinking about this and recalling how my old Dish PVR
> worked...the signal lost message seemed to be a flag in the stream
> rather than an actual 'Signal Lost' video.
This is how I originally implemented the signal monitoring. But Issac
put us developers under strict orders to not slow down LiveTV with
extra signals between the backend and frontend. Anyway this doesn't
address the issue of how TVRec is implemented with respect to tuning
being a somewhat atomic action. With LiveTV tuning is broken up into
three states: change frequency, wait for signal, wait for tables.
This would have to be done with recordings as well if we wanted to
eliminate the timeouts there.

-- Daniel