On 10/29/08 12:40, Richard F wrote: > Teemu, > > I had a similar problem with budget Freecom / WT-220U USB stick tuners. > I usually had to swap multiplex/transponder to get them to re-tune reliably. > I observed that if they lost tuning, vdr made them re-try (which I saw in the > log) > but eventually would bomb out if it couldn't tune, which is maybe what you're > seeing? > > Originally I logged it as a DVB driver bug, but the maintainer said it was an > application bug. > > I found the following, which requires you to patch/rebuild vdr from source. > Basically it just adds a small delay to the tuning process, and it works 100% > for me. > > I had to do this on 1.4.7 and carried it over in 1.6.0 also - so no, vanilla > 1.6 won't help you. > > It would be good if something equivalent was in vanilla VDR but I suppose it > slows > some systems by a fraction of a second when tuning. > Perhaps a "budget card" option? > > http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=639048 > The actual patch is at http://tafe.unkelhaeusser.de/vdr/dvbdevice.c.patch
I'm afraid I don't quite see why the applications would need to do some arbitrary sleep here. If the driver requires this, why doesn't it do it by itself? Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr