On Thursday 22 May 2008 02:21:58 Andy Walls wrote:
> I've tracked down my EBUSY problem with cx18 and my HVR-1600 when
> MythTV tries to start an analog capture.
>
> Because the mythbackend has started up a dvb stream to collect EPG
> data from the OTA ATSC broadcasts, the atomic variable cx->capturing
> is already incremented via cx18_dvb_start_feed() calling
> cx18_start_v4l2_encode_stream().  When MythTV tries to start watching
> live TV on the analog side of the HVR-1600, the VIDIOC_S_FMT ioctl()
> for a V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE fails in cx18_try_or_set_fmt() with
> an EBUSY because cx->capturing has already been incremented.  Because
> of this EBUSY return from the ioctl(), MythTV won't start an analog
> capture on the HVR-1600.

Argh! I never realized this, but that will indeed fail.

> I haven't looked at a proper fix for this yet, but I wanted to write
> it down, before I forgot the details.  My first thought was to
> simplistically maintain a separate cx->capturing counter for both DVB
> and analog.  I'm guessing there some problems with treating active
> analog and DVB captures as totally independent though, as they both
> pass through the CX23418.

Actually, this was my first idea as well. The fix will have to be 
something along those lines in any case.

Regards,

        Hans

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